SELECTED WORKS:
SILENT SKY
Lauren Gunderson
Directed:Jennifer LeBlanc, SPARC Shakespeare-in-the-Vineyard
“In this luminous drama…Emilie Talbot exudes warmth and playful good humor as Williamina Fleming.”
- Sam Hurwitt, San Jose Mercury News
Breaking THE CODE
Hugh Whitemore
Directed: Kirsten Brandt, Jewel Theatre Co.
“Full of acting riches...the cast is uniformly top drawer…”
-Joanne Englehardt, Santa Cruz Sentinel
‘“Open(s) a window into one man’s brilliance—as well as the intensity and heartbreak that sometimes accompany it.”
-Jacob Pierce, Good Times
As Turing’s mother Sara, Emilie Talbot …becomes a surprise ally in his opposition to prevailing moral standards and a guardian of his posthumous reputation.
-Phillip Pearce, Performing Arts Monterey Bay
THE RESTING PLACE
Ashlin Halfnight World Premiere
Directed: Jessica Holt, Magic Theatre
“As the Jameson-sipping mother, Talbot has a lovely, sloppy detachment that covers her pain with a sheen of perl-black humor.”
-Patrick Thomas, Talking Broadway
“Capture(s) parental suffering flawlessly.”
-Evelyn Arevalo, Theatrius.com
BONDAGE
Star Finch World Premiere
Directed: Elizabeth Carter, AlterTheater
"more than an obvious villain: she’s a theatrical wellspring of insidious joy and chaos, and incisively performed by Emilie Talbot”
-John Wilkins, KQED Arts
Love and information
Caryl Churchill
Directed: Benjamin Ismail, Capital Stage
'“Poetic and elusive…”
-Marcus Crowder, Sacramento Bee
Landless
Larissa FastHorse World Premiere
Directed: Ann Brebner and Jeanette Harrison, AlterTheater
“Emilie Talbot brings a vital focus to her role…”
-Robert Hurwitt, SF Chronicle
“A finely tuned characterization”
-Charles Kruger, Theatre Storm
The Dead Girl
Ann Brebner World Premiere
Directed: Ann Brebner, AlterTheater
"…Emilie Talbot, achingly fragile…sweet, intimate honesty and remarkable sense of battered beauty”
-David Templeton, North Bay Bohemian
“Beautifully eloquent and emotionally authentic depiction of grief handled in the best of all possible ways”
-Sam Hurwitt, Marin IJ
The Best Man
Gore Vidal
Directed: Tom Ross, Aurora Theatre Co.
“Her performance rings true.”
-Kedar Ardour, AllEvents/TheatreWorld
“Talbot’s long-suffering, dutiful wife is nicely placed”
-Michael Simpson, Culturevulture
Trojan Women
Ellen McLaughlin/Euripides Professional World Premiere
Directed: Barbara Oliver, Aurora Theatre Co.
“make(s) the poetry of the play erupt like a volcano…Talbot’s mournful resolve to subjugate her grief, to survive at all costs, cuts to the bone.”
-Karen D’Souza, San Jose Mercury News
“Feeling through astutely unsentimental performance.”
-Chloe Veltman, SF Weekly
“Outstanding anguished performance”
-Talking Broadway
“Talbot’s strikingly grounded anguish… provides some of the play’s most eloquent moments.”
-Robert Hurwitt, SF Chronicle
“There’s no artifice in Talbot’s reaction. We feel every jagged shard of anguish … an astonishing moment, and it’s exactly the kind of moment you hope for in watching a play more than 2,000 years old when time ceases to matter and human emotion and connection is the one thing in the universe that matters.”
-Chad Jones, TheatreDogs