Emjoy Gavino biography

Emjoy Gavino

At Writers Theatre: Vietgone

Representative Chicago credits include The Drunken City, You Got Older (Steppenwolf Theatre), Wait Until Dark, Electra, The Good Book, Iphigenia in Aulis, M Butterfly, The Hard Problem (Court Theater), Bull in a China Shop (About Face Theatre), You on the Moors Now (The Hypocrites), The Realish Housewives (National tour, The Second City), Death and Harry Houdini, Wilson Wants it All (The House Theater of Chicago), 4000 Miles (Northlight Theatre), Failure: A Love Story (Victory Gardens Theater), Seascape, Fallen Angels, Love and Information (Remy Bumppo Theatre Company), Hair (Paramount Theatre), Working (Broadway Playhouse), Arabian Nights (Lookingglass Theatre Company), Neo-Futurist Christmas Carol (The Neo-Futurists) and A Christmas Carol (Goodman Theater). Regional credits include Repertory Actors Theatre, Book-It Repertory, ACT, 5^th Avenue Theatre and Village Theatre. Film/TV: The Exorcist, Mob Doctor, Empire (Fox), Chicago Fire and Chicago Med (NBC). Emjoy graduated from The School at Steppenwolf. She is the casting director of Gift Theatre, a teaching artist with Barrel of Monkeys, a 3Arts Make a Wave grantee and is the founder and producer of The Chicago Inclusion Project. She is represented by Stewart Talent.

[Bio as of June 2018]