Emily Lotspeich

Trap Door credits
Acting
- Decomposed Theatre, Episode 4
- ALAS
- Reality Theatre
- Lipstick Lobotomy
- No matter how hard we try (part of International Voices Project)
- Gardenia (part of International Voices Project)
- Love and Information
- Monsieur D’eon Is A Woman
- Sad Happy Suckers
- Locketeer
- Phaedra
- Fantasy Island For Dummies
- The Duchess of Malfi
- AmeriKafka
- 12 Ophelias
- Anger/Fly
Directing
- Reality Theatre
- Universal Wolf
- Tango
- Made In Poland (part of International Voices Project)
- Beholder (assistant director)
- Blood on the Cat’s Neck (assistant direct for 20th anniversary remount)
Stage managing
- Ten Tiny Fingers, Nine Tiny Toes
- How To Explain The History Of Communism To Mental Patients (European tour in 2017)
Ensemble member Emily Lotspeich (she/her/hers) has been a member of the Trap Door since 2012. Originally from Cincinnati, she received a BFA in theater from Depaul University.
Lotspeich’s favorite line from a Trap Door production:
“Where do we keep all this power? In our powder puff?”—Amerikafka
Gallery
Emily Lotspeich embodies the spirit of the storefront as the play’s prop and makeup designer as well as its director.
Kevin Greene, NewCity Stage
Emily Lotspeich …is a human instrument.
Jacob Davis, Around The Town Chicago
The physicality of Emily Lotspeich was impressive to behold.
Tom Williams, Chicago Critic