Emily Nichelson

Trap Door credits

Acting
  • Mother Courage and her Children (Repertory cast)
  • The Mannequins’ Ball
  • Martyrdom of Peter Ohey (Repertory cast)
  • Nana (2024)
  • Bowie in Warsaw (Chicago, New York)
  • Joan and the Fire
  • Medea Material (Original cast and Repertory)
  • Dinner with Marx
  • And Away We Stared
  • Decomposed Theatre, Episode 5
  • ALAS
  • The White Plague
  • Love and Information 
  • Tango 
  • The Old Woman Broods 
  • Occidental Express (2018 European tour) 
  • The Fairytale Lives of Russian Girls
  • No Matter How Hard We Try 
Design
  • Galileo (makeup designer)
  • Lipstick Lobotomy (assistant hair and makeup designer)

Emily Nichelson (she/her/hers) has been a member of the Trap Door community since 2015. She has appeared onstage in many productions, including the 2018 European Tour of The Occidental Express. She has also worked as the assistant hair and makeup designer.

Gallery

 …we need this unique presentation (…), a collaboration between this awesome ensemble (…Chicago’s amazing avant-garde company Trap Door Theatre) and an international group of guest performers and directors.

Tony Frankel, Stage and Cinema (about Decomposed Theatre)

What Trap Door does with this material is rather miraculous! Highly recommended!

Bill Esler, Buzz Center Stage (about The White Plague)

The next 90 or so minutes fly by as this cast tells many dozens of tales of what love and human connection looks like in the digital age.

Amy Munice, Picture this Post (about Love and Information)