Emily Schooley
| Emily Schooley | |
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| Born | Emily Patricia Lynn Schooley October 17, 1984 Calgary, Alberta, Canada |
| 💼 Occupation | Actress, film director, writer |
| 📆 Years active | 2008–present |
| 🌐 Website | emilyschooley |
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]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 McKay, Millicent (July 30, 2018). "New Play About Incarceration to Debut at Island Fringe Festival". Journal Pioneer. Retrieved August 24, 2018.
- ↑ Johnson, Nathaniel (July 26, 2018). "Emily Schooley has always been a performer". St. Catharines Standard. Retrieved August 24, 2018.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Horror Society bio
- ↑ Rogue Cinema interview
- ↑ Flip's Twisted World game credits
- ↑ Twitter post - accessed Sept 5, 2018
- ↑ Reid, Robert (November 17, 2004). "Top Girls speaks powerfully to women". Kitchener-Waterloo Record. Kitchener, Ontario.
- ↑ She Speaks 2009
- ↑ Portobello Film Festival Short Films 2008
- ↑ CIAFF Awards Archive 2008
- ↑ 28 Days Later - Black Eve
- ↑ Horror Society - Black Eve review
- ↑ GooglePlay - Black Eve listing
- ↑ Notacon Speakers List 2010
- ↑ Horror News.net press release
- ↑ 28 Days Later - One Week in Windchocombe
- ↑ Clutch - List of awards - Wikipedia
- ↑ Guinness World Record Attempt
- ↑ Toronto Theatre Database
- ↑ My Entertainment World review
- ↑ Tzavaras, Maria (December 11, 2014). "Scarborough Theatre Guild's Death in a Black Suit a great murder mystery". Scarborough Mirror. Retrieved August 24, 2018.
- ↑ Raise the Hammer - Heatwave Review
- ↑ Ad Astra Entertainment and Notable Events - 2011
- ↑ Festigious Film Festival Winners
- ↑ Toronto Short Film Festival Winners
- ↑ 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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- 1984 births
- Actresses from Calgary
- Actresses from Toronto
- Canadian film actresses
- Canadian stage actresses
- Web series actresses
- Film directors from Calgary
- Film directors from Toronto
- Women film directors
- Canadian film directors
- Canadian women writers
- Canadian screenwriters
- People from Port Colborne
- Writers from Calgary
- Writers from Toronto
