Emily Lotspeich

Emily Lotspeich Trap Door Theatre

Trap Door credits

Acting
  • The Cuttlefish, or the Hyrcanian Worldview
  • Nana (2024)
  • Bowie in Warsaw (Chicago, New York)
  • Joan and the Fire
  • Medea Material (Original cast and Repertory)
  • Discourse Without Grammar
  • Decomposed Theatre, Episode 4
  • ALAS
  • Reality Theatre (Trap Open)
  • Lipstick Lobotomy
  • Love and Information
  • Monsieur D’eon Is A Woman
  • Sad Happy Sucker (Trap Open)
  • Locketeer
  • Phèdre
  • Fantasy Island For Dummies
  • The Duchess of Malfi
  • Anger/Fly
  • 12 Ophelias
  • AmeriKafka
Directing
  • Reality Theatre (Trap Open)
  • The 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. In addition to Trap Door, Emily has worked with Prop Thtr, Silent Theatre Company, Polarity Ensemble and Cornservatory.

Gallery

Lotspeich skillfully balances spiritual presence with farcical wit.

Emily Werner,Werner Reviews (about Cuttlefish)

Lotspeich is eminently watchable as the Pope. Her dynamism swings between wielding the sacred assuredness of her authority and an insatiable appetite for sucking all the marrow from the bone of life on this side of eternity.

Kyle A. Thomas, Chicago On Stage (about Cuttlefish)

Special attention should be paid to Emily Lotspeich as Pope Julius II. Speaking with magnanimous detachment, she delivers some of show’s cleverest lines.

Adam Kaz, Third Coast Review (about Cuttlefish)

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 (about The Universal Wolf)

Emily Lotspeich …is a human instrument.

Jacob Davis, Around The Town Chicago (about Phedre)

The physicality of Emily Lotspeich was impressive to behold.

Tom Williams, Chicago Critic (about Fantasy Island for Dummies)