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Emily Schooley

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Emily Schooley
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BornEmily Patricia Lynn Schooley
(1984-10-17) October 17, 1984 (age 39)
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
💼 Occupation
Actress, film director, writer
📆 Years active  2008–present
🌐 Websiteemilyschooley.com

Emily Patricia Lynn Schooley (born October 17, 1984) is an award-winning[1] Canadian film and theatre actress, film director, and writer.[2]

Personal life[edit]

Born in Calgary, Alberta, Schooley moved to Port Colborne, Ontario at an early age. Schooley wrote and performed plays in her backyard from a very young age. She starred in her first lead role – as the Country Mouse, in a production of Aesop's Fables – at five years old, and had aspirations of making her own movies. She went on to attend Port Colborne High School; however, for most of her early school years, she had planned to become a veterinarian. Not to be forgotten, the acting bug re-emerged with a passion at the end of high school and at graduation Schooley received the Dramatic Arts award, as well as awards and scholarships recognizing her accomplishments in creative writing and volunteerism.[3]

Schooley graduated with honors from the University of Waterloo in 2007, with an honors Bachelor of Arts in Drama.

Schooley is a self-identifying geek with a love of Doctor Who.[4] She has worked with notable geek icon Anthony Head.[5]

Schooley has resided in Toronto since February 2010.[3][6]

Acting career[edit]

While in university, Schooley performed mostly in theatre roles with groups such as Kitchener Waterloo Little Theatre and FASS. As well, she performed in a benefit run of Top Girls by Caryl Churchill for a local actor with cancer[7] and for several years’ running as part of "She Speaks", an annual night of staged readings for International Women’s Day.[8]

After university, Schooley began to work in film, beginning in 2008. Schooley's first notable independent short film role – starring in Orange Girl in 2008 – earned a lot of attention at independent film festivals and gained her international fans when it screened as part of the Portobello Film Festival in the UK.[9]The film won a prestigious two-star award from the Canadian International Film & Video Festival.[10]

In February 2010, Schooley moved to Toronto, Ontario. She starred in Black Eve as Pimp[11][12], which filmed that same month and recently received widespread release after a successful run at festivals.[13]

In April 2010, Schooley was a guest speaker at Notacon in 2010 on the topic of independent filmmaking[14] and later that year, she was a special guest at the science-fiction convention Polaris.

Since then, Schooley has gone on to star in several other feature horror films, including playing the lead role of Ivette, a theoretical physicist, in Jeffery J. Timbrell’s One Week in Windchocombe.[15][16] Schooley often plays the final girl, and because of her extensive work in Canadian horror she has become known as a scream queen.

Beginning in 2011, Schooley began working in web series as well. Among other roles in independent series, she plays Michelle in Clutch; the series has gained accolades from festivals including the prestigious Marseille Web Fest, Indie Fest, and Indie Intertube Awards.[17]

In 2014, Schooley participated as a guest for a Guinness World Record attempt at the Intercontinental Hotel in Toronto, ON for The Mind Reels, also featuring many other notable Canadian actors including Kate Hewlett and Robin Dunne.[18]

Professional theater engagements include acclaimed shows at the Toronto Fringe Festival. In 2012, Schooley played fan-favorite complicated IT Director/party girl Dahlia Joss in ZED.TO. In 2013, Schooley played the 'sensual and exciting' lead role of Lilith in Erotic Tales From the Old Testament.[19][20] In 2014, Schooley played the role of Frieda Ball in Death in a Black Suit, a world premiere of a new murder-mystery ensemble play by Maureen Jennings.[21] In 2018, Schooley starred as Mia in Heatwave at the Hamilton Fringe Festival[22] and as Lora in Caged at the Island Fringe Festival..[1]

Schooley has also studied and performed longform improvisation with Second City Training Center and the former Impatient Theatre Company. Schooley also performs occasionally with her own team, Pandora's Toybox, including a benefit performance for the Sunburst Awards at Ad Astra in 2011.[23]

Directing career[edit]

Schooley has written and directed several award-winning short films including Psyche (2016)[24] and Life and the Art of Lying (2017, formerly known as Reset).[25][26]

Schooley is an associate member of Film Fatales.

References[edit]

  1. 1.0 1.1 McKay, Millicent (July 30, 2018). "New Play About Incarceration to Debut at Island Fringe Festival". Journal Pioneer. Retrieved August 24, 2018.
  2. Johnson, Nathaniel (July 26, 2018). "Emily Schooley has always been a performer". St. Catharines Standard. Retrieved August 24, 2018.
  3. 3.0 3.1 Horror Society bio
  4. Rogue Cinema interview
  5. Flip's Twisted World game credits
  6. Twitter post - accessed Sept 5, 2018
  7. Reid, Robert (November 17, 2004). "Top Girls speaks powerfully to women". Kitchener-Waterloo Record. Kitchener, Ontario.
  8. She Speaks 2009
  9. Portobello Film Festival Short Films 2008
  10. CIAFF Awards Archive 2008
  11. 28 Days Later - Black Eve
  12. Horror Society - Black Eve review
  13. GooglePlay - Black Eve listing
  14. Notacon Speakers List 2010
  15. Horror News.net press release
  16. 28 Days Later - One Week in Windchocombe
  17. Clutch - List of awards - Wikipedia
  18. Guinness World Record Attempt
  19. Toronto Theatre Database
  20. My Entertainment World review
  21. Tzavaras, Maria (December 11, 2014). "Scarborough Theatre Guild's Death in a Black Suit a great murder mystery". Scarborough Mirror. Retrieved August 24, 2018.
  22. Raise the Hammer - Heatwave Review
  23. Ad Astra Entertainment and Notable Events - 2011
  24. Festigious Film Festival Winners
  25. Toronto Short Film Festival Winners
  26. Capuano, Erin (March 11, 2015). "Writer/Director Emily Schooley talks about her new film, Reset". Digital Journal. Retrieved August 24, 2018.

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