Background
Emily Haver (she/her) is a Taipei, Seattle, and Shanghai-based actor, playwright, and director. (She also dabbles in film!) She has her B.A. in Theatre and a minor in Chinese from Seattle University, and an M.A. in Intercultural Communication Studies at Shanghai Theatre Academy. She grew up in the Washington cities of Seattle and Renton and spent her teenage years living in southern China.
Emily currently lives in Taipei, Taiwan where she is exploring her interest in film, writing new plays, and doing voice-over work/writing articles for an educational magazine to pay the bills.
Artistic Mission
As an artist Emily collaborates across cultures, making ensemble and experimentation-based work that provokes social questions and is emotionally grounded.
Education & Interests
During her time at Seattle University, Emily had the opportunity to study acting, movement, voice, clowning, and stage combat under a variety of pedagogies. SU educates the whole person and empowers leaders for a just and humane world. Thanks to this, Emily is uniquely prepared to serve communities through her art, as she has the intellectual and experiential tools to grapple with contemporary sociopolitical issues.
At Shanghai Theatre Academy, Emily integrated her passions of theatre and Chinese by pursuing her M.A. in Intercultural Communication Studies. STA’s program combines both practical work and academic study and research in the context of global theatre. Established in 1945, STA is one of the most renowned art institutes in China. Emily strives to be an internationally-minded artist reactive to the complexities of an ever-changing global community.
Artistically, Emily is passionate about developing new works, the potential of revisited classical works like Shakespeare and the Greeks, and making devised works that combine text and movement. She’s also interested in the ideas from the Theatre of the Absurd and practitioners such as Brecht, Boal, and Artaud.
