Emily James is an actress and stand up comedian who has made appearances in shows like THEM: 2 THE SCARE on Amazon Prime and DEXTER: ORIGINAL SIN for Showtime. Emily’s biggest career accomplishment was co-producing and starring in her first stand up special, EMILY JAMES - LATE TO THE PARTY with H5H Production, Comedy Dynamics airing on Prime Video and AppleTV+. 

Emily performs on LA stages like The Comedy Store in Hollywood and Flappers, Burbank in addition to venues from NYC to Hawaii. She currently produces, WAKE UP BECKY at THE CROW in Santa Monica, which is being developed into a series. 

HISTORY

Emily earned her degree in Film Studies at The University of Colorado, moved to LA and began working in casting and production while she studied improv and sketch at The Second City and UCB, creating original characters and shows all over Hollywood. 

After spending years pursuing her career in comedy, Emily booked “the role of a lifetime” as a mom. She put her career on hold to focus on her children, but discovered that raising two boys was emotionally, mentally and spiritually confronting in ways she’d never imagined. These real, raw experiences pushed her to pursue her art again but more deeply, this time with her directorial debut of her award winning film, BOYMOM, which was developed into a series and in development to be a stage musical. 

She found her way back to the mic telling  jokes that stem deeply from her experience mothering TWO ROWDY BOYS. From the toys they play with to the music they listen to, Emily is always in alien territory. And her sex life with her hot husband has flip-turned upside down as well! When Emily stricken with severe vertigo which lead to a diagnosis of Multiple Sclerosis in the throes of 2020 shutdown, she once again, used her comedy to help her heal by doing zoom shows and finding humor in the tough times.  "I take the deepest darkest parts of my life and bring them to the light because, with that, I am alive, I heal and celebrate my truth."