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Resume

Height: 5"1 | Eye Color: Green | Hair Color: Brown | Vocal Part: Mezzo Soprano

Representation: Tamara's Models & Talent Agency

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Interactive/ Improvisational Theatre

The Dinner Detective | Cast Member | Started June 2019

Medical Exam Simulations | Standardized Patient | Started Dec. 2018

Enchanting Birthdays of WNY | Children's Character Performer | Started Sept. 2018

Artpark Fairy House Festival | Earth Fairy | June 2018

Collegiate Theatre

Knockers | Alma | Niagara University Theatre (Short Play Festival 2015)

Guys and Dolls | Mission Band | Niagara University Theatre

The Taming of the Shrew | Sugar Sop | Niagara University Theatre
Green Sound
 | Molly | Niagara University Theatre (Short Play Festival 2016)

Stage Door | Bobby Melrose | Niagara University Theatre
Mother Hicks | Helen Hammon | Niagara University Theatre

Much Ado About Nothing | Claudio | Live Literature Company (London)

Men on Boats | George Young Bradley | Niagara University Theatre

The House of Bernarda Alba | Melly Alba | Niagara University Theatre

Professional Theatre

Decades | Rose/Mary | Unique Theatre

Deadly Delights | Mary | Deadly Delights

Comedy of Queerers | Antiphola of Syracuse/Dromia | Brazen-Faced Varlets

Now and Then | Abby | Desiderio’s Dinner Theatre

The Kids Are Alright | Librarian | Unique Theatre

Don't Drink the Water | Susan Hollander | Desiderio's Dinner Theatre

Hamlet | Guildenstern | Brazen-Faced Varlets

London Calling | Sister Three | American Repertory Theatre of WNY

When Worlds Collide | Mrs. Cratchit | American Repertory Theatre of WNY

American Idiot | Ben | Bellissima Productions

Rust and Redemption | Silvia | American Repertory Theatre of WNY

Finnegan's Farewell | Busty Quivers | Hart and Roberts Productions (HARP)

The Mousetrap | Miss Casewell | Hart and Roberts Productions (HARP)

Proof | Catherine | Carriage House Players (Kenan Center)

Fall from the Grace of God | Joan/Vicky | American Repertory Theatre of WNY

All Through the Night | Friederike | Brazen-Faced Varlets

To the New Girl | Elissa | First Look Buffalo Theatre Company

The Ghost of Avon | Ghost | Green Buffalo Productions

In Crazy Love | Karen/Beth | Green Buffalo Productions

Homestyle Homicide | Honey Dew | Acme Murder Mystery Co.

You and Me | Tori Pericoloso | Green Buffalo Productions

Film

Gaspers (2025) | Virginia | Geno Delmaro (Inzombiea_ Studios)

Alter Egos (2025) | Stacy Stryker | Zack Hatrick (Schmatrick Productions)

Inbound (2025) | Inbound | Rhea Rosenberg (Tsunami Pictures)

Radium Ghosts (2023) | Grace | Summer Harris  (Glass Walrus Media)

Stolen Time (2023) | Cassie | Jackson Kuffel (Relic Entertainment)

To Know a Veil (2023) | Monica | Tyler Ineson (Other Way Productions)

Lightning Baby (2023) | Morgan | RJ Marshall (Ian Hagerty Productions)

Two Love Birds (2022) | Ellen Bernadette Taupin | Zack Hatrick (Cacophonous Productions)

Chicken Strips (2022) | Party Goer #4 | Colin Taylor (SLP Entertainment)

Holy Night (2020) | Jamie | David Anderson (Luminary Figures Group)

Homeless Haunters Anonymous (2020) | Stardust | Leyla Gentil (Green Buffalo Productions)

Love, Magic, and a Jellybean (2020) | Jellybean | Maddy Sedlor (Green Buffalo Productions)

Training

Acting:   Steve Braddock, Josie DiVincenzo, Daniel Lendzian, Paul Todaro, David Walh, Douglas Zschiegner


Voice: Cristen Gregory, Bridget Moriarty, David Walh


Dance: Terri Filips-Vaughan (jazz, tap, ballet), Gary Marino (ballet), Stacy Zawadzki-Janusz and Natalie Slipko (jazz), Trevor Copp (ballroom/movement)

Stage Combat: Adriano Gatto

Special Skills

  • International Phonetic Alphabet/Dialects: British (RP), Cockney, Scottish, Irish, German, American Southern

  • Stage combat (sword/unarmed)

  • Aerial silks/hammock

  • Aerial hoop/lyra

  • Clown

  • Pole dance

  • Stage makeup (realistic/fantasy)

Direction/Stage Management

Direction:

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof | Assistant Director | Hart and Roberts Productions (HARP)

Unprimed | Director | Niagara University Theatre

Stage Management:

Liquidation | Green Buffalo Productions

Costume Coordinator:

The Kids Are Alright | Unique Theatre

Virtual Theatre/Audio Work

Revision: An Audioplay (written and directed by j. Snodgrass) | Madison​​

  • recorded at American Repertory Theatre of WNY in Jan. 2025

  • recorded with a live audience

"Canalside Summer" (written by j. Snodgrass)

  • recorded song specifically written for production of Rust and Redemption at ART of WNY

  • featured on YouTube

I Was Here  (written and directed by Ellen Scherer) | Jamie

  • chosen for Equity Library Theater's Summer 2020 Virtual Play Festival

  • tied for best play

Speak Truth to Power: Voices from Beyond the Dark (written by Ariel Dorfman, directed by Alyssa Walsh) | Voice 4

  • collaboration between the Holocaust Resource Center of Buffalo, Buffalo Jewish Federation, Jewish Community Center Buffalo, and Jewish Repertory Theatre of WNY

  • presented with live talk-back

© 2025 by Sarah Emmerling & Tommy Jacobs

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