UP NEXT:
Feature film debut! RUSTIN, dir. George C, Wolfe and starring Colman Domingo and
Audra McDonald, comes to Netflix in fall 2023
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Emily returns to the Maryland Renaissance Festival Acting Company, August 26 - October 22, 2023
Emily H. Gilson
Actor | Voice Talent | Playmaker | Teaching Artist
SAG•AFTRA


"The finest Shakespeare online during this lockdown...Emily Gilson’s Northumberland is a skirling joy."
FringeReview UK
"A master stroke of casting."
DC Theatre Scene
"Gilson...is at once fragile and the next minute of great emotional strength."
Maryland Theatre Guide
"Praise is due for Emily Gilson as Brooke, effective and affecting."
DC Theatre Scene
"Playing the delicately angelic Miss Roberts, Emily H. Gilson is a superb fit to the role....effortless."
TheatreBloom
"As the quiet, repressed governess, Gilson...deliver[s] the most realistic performance of the quartet."
DC Theatre Scene
"Emily H. Gilson is luminous as Catherine [Givings]."
Maryland Theatre Guide
"Gilson’s...portrayal of Catherine Givings is of great interest, [with] a desperate curiosity."
TheatreBloom
"[A] buoyant, vivacious Mrs. Givings."
DC Metro Theater Arts
"I would guess no one is more critical of depictions of Miss [Alice] Paul than I. [Emily's] is as close to perfection as I have seen or read."
Zoe Nicholson; Historian, Author, and Equal Rights Amendment Activist
"Sharp [and] perceptively wrought...like an apparition after too long under the sun."
DC Metro Theater Arts
"Outshining other elements...Ariel is vivid and intriguing.'"
Washington Post
"Jumpy and sexy and dangerous...sensory overload in the best way.'"
DC Metro Theater Arts
"Emily H. Gilson as Sister James exudes such a palpable connection that you feel what they feel."
Maryland Theatre Guide
"[Doubt] done right...Affectingly sincere."
DC Metro Theater Arts
"Emily Gilson's devastation as Judith was chillingly resounding."
Maryland Theatre Guide
"Some of the brightest DC-based actors and directors around....Crisp, lively, funny and full of life....like winning one of those mysterious boxes at the County Fair."
DC Theatre Scene
"Wish-we-thought-of-it-brilliant. Where have you been all my life?!"
DC Metro Theater Arts

Photo (c) Ruby Zhao 2017