Emily Skeggs

Emily Skeggs, born in New York City in 1990, is an American actress and singer whose career spans stage, television, and film. She performed Off-Broadway at the Irish Rep in Take Me Along in 2008 and appeared that year in a New York International Fringe Festival production of Ripcords. Her stage work later included Rebecca in Our Town at the Huntington Theatre Company in 2012 and Polly Cantwell in Transport at the Irish Rep in 2014. After understudying in Fun Home Off-Broadway in 2013, she took over as Medium Alison and reprised the role on Broadway in 2015, earning a Tony nomination for Best Featured Actress in a Musical and a Theatre World Award. In 2017 she played the young activist Roma Guy in ABC's miniseries When We Rise. She starred in the comedy Dinner in America (2020), which premiered at Sundance and drew praise for her performance opposite Kyle Gallner.