EMILY DAVIS is a founder and Artistic Director of Messenger Theatre Company. For Messenger, Emily has written and directed fig. a: The Heart, The Great God Money, Persephone, The Golden Apple: For the Fairest, The Daughters of Memory, The Adventures of Baba Yaga: Little Girl Stew, The Enemy, Waiting Room, Puppet Rap (which was filmed by NY1 and CNN as part of the Lysistrata Project) and directed Macbeth. She curates and produces the company's Annual Festival of Myth.

Emily has directed for Dreamcatcher Repertory Theatre, Simon Studios and Cunningham Productions. As an assistant director and dramaturg, Emily worked with Helena Kaut-Howson on Yerma (at the Arcola Theatre in London,) Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass and with Mark Ravenhill on Nursery/School.

Emily’s plays have had staged readings by Manhattan Theatre Source, Spring Theatreworks and Shalimar Productions. Commissions include the Carnegie Melon University Radio Series and St. Thomas Reformed Church in the Virgin Islands.

Messenger's Mythellaneous featured Emily’s work as a performer. With Shenandoah Shakespeare, she toured the United States and Canada as an actor in Hamlet, Twelfth Night, Love’s Labor’s Lost, A Midsummer Night's Dream and Henry IV, part 1. Additionally, she has performed with Mill Mountain Theatre, Georgia Shakespeare Festival, The Tennessee Project and Quest Theatre Ensemble. She was a resident artist at Lime Kiln Arts in Lexington, Virginia where she toured the Mid-Atlantic with five Appalachian folk tales (acting, playing guitar, bass and mandolin) and co-wrote and composed Tatterhood, a musical play. She has done regular voice-over work for BAMcinematek’s silent film series. As a singer/songwriter, Emily founded and played with Bright Red Boots, who released their debut CD in May 2001 (available at http://www.cdbaby.com/brboots.

As a teaching artist, Emily has worked for BAM, New York Student Shakespeare Festival, Classics on Tour, City Lights Youth Theatre, American Globe Theatre, Roundabout, Theatre for a New Audience, Bronx Arts Ensemble, Arts Connection, LEAP, Smartworks and Young Audiences/NY. Emily has taught clown at Live Arts Summer Theatre Institute and founded Kids Summer Shakespeare, a free program for children in the South Bronx. Emily served as curriculum consultant for the Shakespeare project at Artsbridge, UCD.

Emily has an MFA in Directing from the University of California, Davis and a BA from Sarah Lawrence College. Emily received further training at the Wright School (London, UK,) Actor's Center, HB Studios, Puppet Central, Penland School of Crafts, Fiesole School of Music (Italy,) University of Virginia and James Madison University. Specialized training includes clown, physical theatre, mask, puppetry, stage combat, Viewpoints, Suzuki and Shakespeare.