Odyssey Theatre Ensemble

Brother/Kent

Actor and director, David Purdham has worEmily is thrilled to return for Lear REDUX after previously appearing in Tempest REDUX at The Odyssey! Tour: Tinker Bell in Peter Pan (Theatre Threesixty) Regional: Regan in The Exorcist (Geffen Playhouse), Mittie in Little Black Shadows (South Coast Repertory), The Oregon Trail (Portland Center Stage), Bolero: Ravel’s Dance for Orchestra (Walt Disney Concert Hall), Title Character in The Night Fairy (SCR), Dee in OZ 2.5 (SCR), workshops: John Proctor is the Villain (SCR), Oz 2.5 (SCR), The Night Fairy (SCR), Television: Grimm, Spooked. Film: Project X, Tearsucker. Emily has also developed and performed in many immersive productions throughout Los Angeles and is a member of Interact Theater Company. She is an aerialist, cookie decorator and cat enthusiast. @lilemscookiesked extensively in theatre on and Off Broadway, in many of the great resident theatres in our country (including New York Shakespeare Festival, Roundabout Theatre, Manhattan Theatre Club, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Old Globe–San Diego, Yale Repertory Theatre, American Repertory Theatre, Long Wharf Theatre, Great Lakes Shakespeare Festival, Pittsburgh Public Theatre, Pasadena Playhouse, Williamstown Theatre

Festival) as well as a lot of television and film during the last 50 years. He is a member of NEW AMERICAN THEATRE, and directs The Tempus Theatre Group’s Classical Play reading series (an exploration of the evolution of theatre from the Greeks forward.) There is a nice Television Series on HBO – Winning Time, in which he plays Larry O’Brien, the commissioner of the NBA.