Emily Sucher is a multidisciplinary theatre artist currently living in the D.C. area. They grew up in central New Jersey (about a 40-minute N.J. Transit ride into New York City), and moved to Baltimore to pursue their B.A. in Writing Seminars and Theatre Arts & Studies at Johns Hopkins University. Since graduation, Emily has acted regionally with Shadowland Theatre (Ellenville, N.Y.) and locally with professional theatres such as The Folger Theatre, Imagination Stage, WSC Avant Bard, NextStop Theatre Company, 4615 Theatre Company, Encore Stage, The Welders, Best Medicine Rep, and others. Though Emily loves the local scene, they are flexible to travel. They have also appeared in several television roles and short films.

Offstage, Emily is a freelance creative with various gigs on their calendar, working mainly as a standardized patient, educational roleplayer, and clinical skills educator with various medical schools. Over the past eight years in medical education, Emily has trained in various clinical skillsets and taught learners of all levels how to perform a range of physical exams both accurately and respectfully. The nuanced technical and communications training involved in this work, especially in sensitive exams, led Emily to their goal of becoming an intimacy director.

A student of the craft since 2017, Emily has intimacy choreographed and consulted for over 30 theatrical productions and they are eager to help the practice continue to grow in the DMV theatre community, along with the theatre world at large. A passionate advocate for intimacy direction, Emily is excited to be part of the ground-floor effort to empower artists and to create truthful and safe theatre. They have trained with organizations including Intimacy Directors and Coordinators (IDC), Theatrical Intimacy Education (TIE), National Society for Intimacy Professionals (NSIP), and Intimacy Coordinators of Color (ICOC).

In 2022, Emily completed Level 3 of IDC's certification program and is a proud member of the organization's very first cohort of certified intimacy directors (live performance). They have also intimacy coordinated several short films and they’re eager to build screen experience in this field as well. In February 2023, Emily was nominated for a Helen Hayes Award (Outstanding Choreography in a Play) for “To Fall in Love” with Nu Sass Productions, making history as the first choreographer nominated exclusively for intimacy direction.