Emmy Bean

Emmy Bean is a singer, performer, and interdisciplinary artist. Her work combines improvisation, conversation, folk tunes, narrative, poetic inquiry, political urgency and embodied expression. She writes songs and performs both as a soloist and with the trio 80 Foots. She has been seen in Facility Theater’s Little Match Girl Passion, Theater Oobleck’s Baudelaire in a Box, and has created sound and music for Facility Theater’s production of Phoebe in Winter. She has collaborated with Stacy Rene Erenberg, Ami Saraiya, Jace William, Erica Mott, Naima Lowe, Opera-Matic, the Neo-Futurists, John Szymanski, Beyond This Point, and ~Nois saxophone quartet. Her solo show You’re His Child has been seen at the Pivot Arts Festival and Rhino Fest here in Chicago. She holds a masters degree in Interdisciplinary Art from Columbia College Chicago.