Emma Rosenthal

Emma Rosenthal

At Writers Theatre: Athena

Emma Rosenthal (she/her) is absolutely giddy to be returning to live theatre for the first time in nearly two years. Chicago: Molly Aster in Peter and the Starcatcher (BroadwayWorld Award: Best Actress in a Play), Beauty and the Beast, West Side Story, Les Miserables, Charlotte’s Web (Drury Lane Oakbrook); Brigadoon, Candide (Goodman Theatre); The Tempest (Steppenwolf); The Fantasticks (Porchlight Music Theatre); Shrew’d (First Folio, world premiere). Off Broadway: Polly Peachum in The Threepenny Opera (Marvell Rep); Emma Lazarus in Liberty (42West/Theatre80, world premiere). Regional: A Christmas Carol (Indiana Repertory Theater); Candide (Huntington Theatre, Shakespeare Theatre of DC); Peter Pan (Cardinal Stage Company); Our Town, The Corn is Green, Camp Monster (Williamstown Theatre Festival); Peter and the Starcatcher, Lord Arthur Savile's Crime, The Actuary, George Washington's Teeth (Peninsula Players); Fiddler on the Roof (Weston Playhouse); Master Class (Music Theatre of Connecticut). A proud graduate of Northwestern University, Emma is also a competitive powerlifter and self-taught pastry chef (you may have seen her and her mom on Fox's Crime Scene Kitchen last summer). Endless thanks to Writer's Theatre and the entire Athena crew, to the team at Gray Talent Group, and to Mom and Aaron.

[Bio as of April 2022]