“Emily is a fearless performer. She is the real deal.”
- Austin Young
Emily came out as trans at 14 in 2009 while in a doomsday political cult. Now she’s an actress, comedian, and drag queen.
In 2015, Emily was invited to become a vlogger for a YouTube collaboration channel called AndroGenetics, which starred 5 trans and gender nonconforming hosts from around the world. The channel gained upwards of 24,000 subscribers.
Emily left her hometown of Leesburg VA in 2014 and graduated with a B.A. in Theater from Oberlin College in 2017, finding a new home in Los Angeles among queer filmmakers and the downtown LA drag community.
In 2021, Emily was cast in Austin Young’s art film “Jump Cut #3”, which was co-commissioned by CMT Festival in Berlin and Mutek Montréal. The film premiered at Take Me Somewhere festival in Glasgow.
In 2022, she starred in Titchy’s music video “Complicated Games” as her drag character “Siri”, and was featured in get-out-the-vote content for LGBT advocacy group, the It Gets Better Project.
Siri was the closing act for Gina Young’s “SORORITY: THRUST” new works showcase and completely derailed Jibz Cameron’s “WEIRDO NIGHT” variety show.
In 2023, Emily began gaining recognition as a stand-up comic, and participated as a storyteller, emcee, and stagehand in “How I Became A Person” - a performance piece by Page Person at the Hammer Museum’s “Made in LA 2023: Acts of Living”.
In 2024, Emily was cast in Piper De Palma’s short film “ End of the World”. You can view footage from this film in her “reels” section!
Baby Emily!Everybody say “Hey, Siri!”
Emily performs multiple times a week as her drag character “Siri”, incorporating lip-sync, stand-up comedy, performance art, physical comedy, dance, live music, and video projections into her presentation. Siri has performed at the Hammer Museum, the Pacific Design Center, the Globe Theater LA, the LA Fairplex, Grand Park, Oasis SF, Zebulon, the Lyric Hyperion, Mickeys, Hamburger Mary’s, Precinct, Roccos, Redline - and twice in Rothbury, Michigan for the Electric Forest music festival. She has been featured in two music videos.
Her drag persona has been described as “pleasantly unhinged”.
In 2020, she began producing and emceeing a digital drag show called “Fake Smart”, and in 2021 “Fake Smart” emerged from cyberspace onto the real stage. Fake Smart was featured in the LA Times in 2023.
In 2024, Siri made her debut at the Electric Daisy Carnival in Los Vegas.
Apart from emceeing, Siri is known for her puppetry, absurdist (and usually messy) performance art, twirling an LED contact staff, vulnerable storytelling, and having invented the color green.
