Emily Wexler is a Brooklyn-based musician/song-writer/teaching artist/activist who employs the transformative power of musical story-telling as a means toward collective liberation. Emily has an alternative r&b/electronic music project called ES Wex in which she performs original music exploring personal and social transformation throughout NYC and beyond. Through ES Wex, she organizes multidisciplinary events to build community and center femme, queer, trans, and POC artists. Emily was most recently an Artist in Residence at The Creators Collective in Brooklyn, collaborating with other artists on a project called, ‘Artists Elevating Immigrant Narratives.’ Emily directs EarSay Youth Voices, a performance workshop at The International High School at Laguardia Community College, a program for new immigrant teenagers to co-create short performance pieces that empower them to tell their stories. She is a Teaching Artist for ENACT, a drama therapy organization serving NYC public schools that models alternative methods of navigating conflict through performance pedagogy.
With Poetic Theater Productions:
Featured Artist in Breaking Our Silence: World Pride Showcase
Featured Artist in Together In Resilience: A Celebration
Teaching Artist for Generation Now! in Poetic License 2019: Resilience
Featured Musician/Composer in Poetic Lyricism: Body Language as part of Poetic License 2020: Renewal