Broadway BUZZ

Emily Bergl, a unique actress among her peers, is known for her ability to transform from role to role. With versatility across genres, she has had a flourishing career in television, film and theater. As a young actress understudying on Broadway, Emily was chosen from a nationwide casting call to play the lead in The Rage: Carrie 2, her very first job on camera. Wary of being typecast as a scream queen, she returned to the theater to play Juliet opposite Neil Patrick Harris, then starred in The Lion in Winter on Broadway opposite Laurence Fishburne and Stockard Channing. Emily’s roles on television are so transformative she is often unrecognizable from one character to the next: Alex Bornstein’s ditzy, resourceful sister in The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, a hardnosed investigator on Mindhunter, and a gun toting, trailer park Chicago mother in Shameless. On Desperate Housewives, she shocked audiences as the suicidal housewife Beth Young. Other regular television roles include You, Dirty John, The Knick, American Crime, How to Get Away with Murder, Scandal, Grey’s Anatomy, Southland, Men in Trees, and The Gilmore Girls. True to her original roots, Emily has combined a thriving television career with equally diverse roles in the theater. She recently starred on Broadway opposite Sean Hayes in Goodnight Oscar, for which she was nominated for a Drama Desk award. Other Broadway appearances include The Ferryman, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof opposite Scarlett Johansson, and A Touch of the Poet opposite Gabriel Byrne. Off-Broadway she has starred in Shakespeare in the Park, and has originated roles in new works by Gina Gionfriddo, Christopher Shinn, and Wendy Wasserstein. She has played iconic parts in classic dramas from Moliere to Thornton Wilder at the Lincoln Center, the Roundabout Theater, and the Williamstown Theater Festival, among others. Perhaps Emily’s most unique career aspect is that she has reinvented herself as a cabaret singer. She has played the premier night clubs across the country from the Cafe Carlyle to Yoshi’s and made the last album to be recorded in the Oak Room, Emily Bergl Live at the Algonquin. Emily will be appearing opposite Jonathan Groff on Broadway in Just in Time this spring. She can also be seen in the upcoming film The History of Sound, starring Paul Mescal and Josh O’Connor.