Art has the power to change history not merely record it.
I am passionate about work that challenges audiences, shifts paradigms, and serves to increase empathy in our culture.
I am working to create a career that makes space for trans actors and patrons within traditionally cis-stories and environments. As well as work that emphasizes the humanity and strength in trans people as individuals and as a community. Let us be the heroes of our own stories.
REEL
"Em Grosland, as both a knife-wielding Golden One and a bespectacled emissary to Pandora, is a delightfully animated pixie." - New York Times
"Em Grosland is striking as a babygay rocking an alternative lifestyle haircut and queer skinny jeans" - Autostraddle
UKECOVER
"Em Grosland is also delightful...an absolute joy to watch in motion. They may be small, but they and their voice are huge in action, and their enthusiasm is infectious." BroadwayWorld.com
RESUME
TV and Film
Regional
New York and Off-Broadway
New Amsterdan
Nurse Ed Brunstetter
NBC
Multiple Directors
Bull
Hipster
CBS
dir. Dennis Smith
Law & Order SVU
Tara
NBC
dir. Alex Chapple
Tales of the City
Homobile Driver
Netflix
dir. Stacie Passon
Ricki and the Flash
Waiter
TriStar
dir. Jonathan Demme
Steppenwolf
Hir
Max
dir. Hallie Gordon
Peter Pan
Peter Pan
Tuacahn Ampitheatre
dir. Glen Casale
Emotional Creature
Em
Berkeley Repertory
dir. Jo Bonney
Treasure Island
Jim Hawkins
Cincinnati Playhouse
dir. Blake Robison
Emotional Creature
Em
Signature Theatre
dir. Jo Bonney
Anthem
Hermes
Culture Project
dir. Rachel Klein
Midsummer Nights Dream
Francis Flute
MasterWorks Theater
dir. Tamila Woodard
The Erlkings
Eric Harris
Theatre Row
dir. Saheem Ali
Training
Shakespeare training with Fiasco Theatre (Jessie Austrian, Noah Brody, and Ben Steinfeld)
Mark Shanahan’s Monologue and scene studies workshop
Jen Waldman Studios: Studio and Audition workshops
Private Voice with Andrew Byrne, Stephen Purdy, Joann Zajac, and Lisa Campbell Albert
BFA from Washington University in St. Louis
Aerial training with ZFX and Foy
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AEA * SAG - AFTRA
pronouns: he/him/his or they/them/theirs
"Although all of this cast has some moments when they thrive, it is the rooted Grosland who really makes it feel like the performer is not demurring in any way." - Chicago Tribune