Emma Irene Olson (she/her) is a queer actor, musician, writer, clown, improviser, fiber artist, and burgeoning astrologer living and working in Los Angeles.
ASTROCABARET, her most recent solo musical, premiered at the 2024 Hollywood Fringe Festival to rave reviews and was nominated for Best Cabaret & Variety Show by the Hollywood Fringe Community as well as the Three Clubs Production Award. Her first solo musical, The Faults In My Stars, premiered at the 2023 Hollywood Fringe Festival, and she previously wrote & performed the solo one-act play Universal & Absolute at the Son of Semele’s Quick Creation Festival.
She has studied at Upright Citizens Brigade, Lesly Kahn & Co., Identity School of Acting, World’s Greatest Improv School, WE Improv, and Feminist Acting Workshop as well as with clowns David Shiner, Deanna Fleysher, Natasha Mercado, Gemma Soldati, Chad Damiani, Zach Zucker, and Tallie Medel.