Emily Lapisardi

Emily Lapisardi is an actress, director, and musician also known for her one-woman shows in which she portrays historical figures such as Rose Greenhow, Sarah Bernhardt, and Jenny Lind. After a brief ballet career in the US and Ukraine, she studied opera in college (where she was a candidate for the Rhodes Scholarship) and at several international training programs, including the Ezio Pinza Council for American Singers of Opera. She is also an accomplished organist and pianist. Lapisardi grew up in the theatre; her father was a dramaturg for several seasons of the Yeats Festival at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin, Ireland and her mother was an acting teacher.