Emma Miller

Emma Miller is a Jewish educator and theater director currently serving in three roles: teen education and engagement director for HaZamir: The International Jewish Teen Choir; theater arts director at B’nai Jeshurun in New York City; and Playmakers Youth Theatre director and director of the Francine and Benson Pilloff Family Performing Arts Camp at the Mandel JCC in Cleveland, Ohio. Emma has founded new models for Jewish performing arts programming and strategically redesigned HaZamir’s experiential teen leadership lab. She has served as an educator and consultant for Perelman Jewish Day School, Anshe Chesed Fairmount Temple, The Temple-Tifereth Israel, Marlene Meyerson JCC Manhattan, Tkiya, and Romemu. Emma has written original curricula that use the arts to teach students about the Holocaust, Jewish identity, and American Jewish history. She is the co-founding artistic director of New York City’s The Hearth theater company as well as a director and producer of new American plays. Now based in New York City, she earned her B.A. in Drama from Kenyon College in Ohio.