EMILIE MILLER is a writer and actress.

Emilie has played roles on NBC’s “Law & Order: SVU,” “The Blacklist,” and her writing has been published in The New York Times and the San Francisco Chronicle. Emilie was one of six foreign authors chosen to write for: RACCONTI DAL MONDO, a curated book of short stories about Cagliari, Sardinia. She was invited back to Sardinia in 2015 and was commissioned to write a book about the town of Neoneli, Sardinia. NEONELI: A Big Little Town was published in 2016. Emilie has been interviewed about her book in L'Unione Sarda and her work has been republished in La Nuova Sardegna. In 2021, her essay about Italy, New York City, and the role of art during the pandemic was presented at the Licanìas Literary Festival in Sardinia.

She wrote the accompanying text for an Environmental Land Art Installation: BREATHE CONGO: A Reflection On The Growing Deforestation of Central Africa’s Rainforest, which was presented adjacent to the 2020 Stellenbosch Triennale in South Africa and recently chosen for the international art exhibition, POINTS of RETURN.

Her solo-show cinghiale! earned two Los Angeles Stage Alliance Ovation Award Nominations, including “The Ray Stricklyn Memorial Award for Solo Performance,” and was also listed by Angeleno Magazine as a “Top Ten” pick. The Katrina Exercise, a play chronicling Emilie’s time spent volunteering with The Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law on the Gulf Coast of Mississippi, was presented in excerpt form at The Kitchen in New York City as part of The Field’s Emerging Artist Residency (made possible in part by the Lambent Foundation Fund of the Tides Foundation). She has performed with Baltimore’s CENTERSTAGE, Coastal Repertory Theatre, San Francisco’s foolsFury and played Emily in the Northern California premiere of Wendy Wasserstein’s Third at TheatreWorks.  

Emilie grew up in the world of Major League Baseball and in the suburbs of Baltimore, where she attended Carver Center for the Arts and Technology. She has since studied theatre at Stanford University, Sarah Lawrence College, and La MaMa Umbria. The Half Moon Bay Review Magazine named Emilie one of “The Top 20 Women Making an Impact.” Emilie lives in Florence, Italy and is a San Francisco Giants fan.