ABOUT

Short bio: Emily Anne Goes, born and raised in East Side San Jose, is a Filipino New York-based performer and pathfinder. NYU Tisch New Studio on Broadway Grad. Artist in Residence at La Mama Experimental Theatre Club and Folk Art Apprentice to Kinding Sindaw. She is an Arts Administrator and currently works with The CRAFT Institute, The International Black Theatre Summit, CreateEnsemble, Broadway Advocacy Coalition, and Britton and the Sting. Most recently seen in In The Heights (Gateway Playhouse, dir. Vince Ortega). Represented by Shushu Entertainment. Malaya Movement. Gratefully standing on the shoulders of those before her, Emily sees and feels her family with each breath. @emilyagoes

 

 Long bio: Emily Anne Goes, born and raised in East Side San Jose, is a a Filipino New York-based performer and pathfinder. NYU Tisch New Studio on Broadway Grad. She is currently an Artist in Residence at La Mama Experimental Theatre Club, company member of Kinding Sindaw Heritage Foundation and Apprentice, learning to assert and preserve Filipino indigenous traditions and reflect on the resilience and resistance against centuries of colonization under Spanish rule. She is also a member of the Malaya Movement, defending human rights, democracy, and sovereignty in the Philippines. 

 

Dedicated to nurturing spaces that acknowledge formative histories and healing pathways forward, Emily currently co-conspires with The CRAFT Institute and The International Black Theatre Summit, founded by Dr. Monica White Ndounou, as the Director of Marketing and Communications, supporting their global initiatives including the Writers Retreat and #BlackTheatreDay. In her role at The CRAFT Institute, she is a Marketing and Operations consultant of CreateEnsemble.com, an incubator that provides a learning and talent development infrastructure for creatives of color. Previously, she proudly served as the Operations Manager for Broadway Advocacy Coalition, and served as the Programmatic Committee Chair for their annual Arts in Action Festival. Outside of work, inspired by Mia Birdsong's book "How We Show Up," Emily created a space called "Nourish and Nurture," that is a queer space for women and nonbinary folks to gather monthly around food and drink, to discuss various themes intentionality, prioritizing emotional awareness and community. 

 

With her husband and creative partner, Minh Đỗ, she has made several short films under Minh's production company, Bai-Ka, including the international award-winning, Lời Ru, a creative, visual, dance poem, What That Means to Me, and a short film that follows a day in the life of a Filipina mother, Olivia.

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She was most recently seen in In The Heights (Gateway Playhouse, dir. Vince Ortega), as well as developmental workshops of the original works, Performing Filipina (Lianah Sta. Ana, Leviathan Lab) and Payanam alMuhajir (Tuânminh A Đỗ, University Settlement). She looks forward to fueling the possibilities within storytelling internationally and continuing to be an artist in productive, intersectional, conscious, and system altering ways.

 

She is represented by Shushu Entertainment. Gratefully standing on the shoulders of those before her, Emily sees and feels her family with each breath.