Emilie Whelan is a director, performer, and arts organizer. In 2006 Emilie moved to New Orleans and helped establish social-political theater company Cripple Creek Theater Company. She has performed in and directed over twenty of their community-organizing performances since 2006 including The Cradle Will Rock, The Lily’s Revenge, Clybourne Park, We Won’t Pay! We Won’t Pay!, Balm in Gilead, The Madwoman of Chaillot, Enemy of the People, Waiting for Lefty, and Alfred Jarry’s Ubu Roi trilogy performed over the course of three Mardi Gras seasons. New Orleans music collaborations include Aurora Nealand, Ratty Scurvics and Valparaiso Men's Chorus. In 2010, Emilie became the Performance Coordinator of the New Orleans Fringe Festival, presenting an international carnival-centric festival of over 70 performances each year. In 2014, she became the co-founder The DISTILLERY Artist Residency housed at the Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans. In 2014, she also became a proud member of the Ubuntu Theatre Project housed in Oakland. She has trained with ensembles Hand2Mouth, TEETH, and Pig Iron. She is an alumni of Lincoln Center’s Director’s Lab and a current member of the Network of Ensemble Theaters. 2016 MFA - Directing - UCSD.
She is also a former 3rd grade classroom teacher.

Upcoming 2017-2018: 
Spring: Taming of the Shrew - Tulane and Cripple Creek - New Orleans
Summer: CALIGULA - Cripple Creek New Orleans
Fall: TREEMONISHA - OperaCreole, Cripple Creek, New Resonance, Music Box Village - New Orleans
Winter: A Streetcar Named Desire - Oakland
Spring: Sueño - New Orleans