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Emma Jay Thomas

Emma Jay Thomas has appeared as Cleo/Stuzzi/Emily Greenleaf in The Talented Mr Ripley (Faction Theatre Company: Wilton’s Music Hall, Vaults Festival and tour); Goddess u/s Miranda in The Tempest and Iras u/s Octavia/Charmian (RSC); the original company of Mamma Mia! (Prince Edward Theatre); Mimi and Gigi u/s Ellen in Miss Saigon (Theatre Royal Drury Lane and Tour); Meg in Merrily We Roll Along (Donmar Warehouse and Queen’s Theatre); Sarah in Ragtime (Piccadilly Theatre).

 

Emma Jay trained at University College London and Mountview Theatre School.

 

Credits include: Mrs. Darling/Ethel Mermaid in Peter Pan (Fairfield Halls),  Prince of Spades/Fairy in The Queen of Hearts (Greenwich Theatre), Cleo/Stuzzi/Emily Greenleaf in The Talented Mr. Ripley (Faction Theatre Company: Wilton’s Music Hall, Vaults Festival and tour); Demon Queen in Mother Goose (Millfield Theatre); Goddess u/s Miranda in The Tempest and Iras u/s Octavia/Charmian for The Royal Shakespeare Company. Original company of Mamma Mia! (Prince Edward Theatre); Mimi and Gigi u/s Ellen in Miss Saigon (Drury Lane and Tour); Godspell (Tour); King Cotton (The Lowry);  Charlene in Ain’t Misbehavin’ (Harrogate Theatre); The Girl on Blues in the Night (Birmingham Rep); Meg in Merrily We Roll Along (Donmar Warehouse and Queens Theatre); Sarah in Ragtime (Picadilly Theatre); Alexi Darling u/s Mimi in Rent (Olympia Theatre Dublin); Maid Marion in Robin Hood and Suzie Dean in The Good Companions (Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich); Princess Jasmine in Sinbad (Warwick Arts Centre); Beauty in Beauty and The Beast, Hebe in HMS Pinafore and Kate in The Pirates of Penzance (New Victoria Theatre, Stoke); Virtue in Mother Goose (Oxford Playhouse); Ronnette in Little Shop of Horrors (English Theatre, Frankfurt) and Princess So-Shy in Aladdin  (Greenwich Theatre).

 

TV, Film and radio credits include The Obstetrician in Holby City for the BBC, short film The Fantastical Millepede, Isabel in Josh Howie’s Losing it for BBC Radio 4 and Dr. Stephanie Thrower in Star Cops for Big Finish Audio.