Emma Kidd
Emma is a Meanjin-based actress, voice-over artist, costume designer and musician. A Queensland Conservatorium graduate, she has trained intensively in acting, voice, movement and improvisation, developing an authentic, detail-driven approach to performance. Passionate about bringing nuance, power and vitality to realism, Emma embodies a versatile skill set and dynamic presence in every project.
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Emma is a multifaceted actress, voice-over artist, costume designer and musician based in Meanjin, Brisbane. She holds a Bachelor of Acting from the Queensland Conservatorium, where she trained intensively in acting, voice and movement for both stage and screen, alongside formative theatrical experience with the Queensland Theatre’s Youth Performance Ensemble. Her extensive improvisational background through The Sit Down Comedy Club’s Theatresports program further shaped her into a sharp, playful and creatively agile performer.
Her recent theatrical credits include Tess in Blue Stockings, Megaera in Welcome to Thebes, Tatyana in Philistines, and Hatty Felecan in an award-winning Anywhere Theatre Festival immersive production The Case of the Butterfly in the Jar. She has collaborated on various Griffith Film School projects, with principal roles as Ayesha in the web series Bush Bash (2024) and Iris in the grad slate short film Vox (2025). In addition to acting in Vox, Emma wrote, recorded and performed the original song featured in the film.
These experiences have shaped Emma as a versatile, dynamic and authentic artist, who brings a detail-oriented, hardworking approach to any project.
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In the role of the Step-Daughter, Emma Kidd brings a burst of volume, vibrancy, and complete chaos to the stage. She refuses to sit neatly within the story, constantly thrusting herself into the spotlight, disrupting, provoking, and demanding that her version of events be heard. Kidd captures the Step-Daughter’s fierce insistence that her truth will not be softened, rewritten, or filtered. This unpredictability sharply contrasts the more subdued nature of the other Characters. There is anger in her performance, but also pain, humour, and a need to take back control of a story that has clearly been told around her, rather than by her.
Stage Buzz Brisbane | Read More
while Emma Kidd’s self-dramatising energy and emotional volatility as the Step-Daughter brings a real friction to the stage.
Meredith Walker - Blue Curtains | Read More
“Emma Kidd, was a stand- out, bouncing between being a slightly unhinged giggly, step-daughter, who helps build the tension between herself and her grounded step -father, with her serious emotional need to reveal a dark truth between herself and the father, through story telling in the play before she can move forward. The father had propositioned her earlier before he realized that she was his step- daughter; it had changed the relationship between them. This is core idea had haunting and chilling overtones, where realism and make- belief collide, and the young woman goes from being sweet and welcoming, to one who looks for revenge. Her emotional outbursts contrast with The Father who appears steady and well- balanced at every stage.”
Lilian Harrington - Absolute Theatre | Read More
“Step-daughter, played by Emma Kidd, who infuses the action with a sexual tension borne from an incestuous undertone.”
Beth Keehn - Stage Whispers | Read Review
‘Kidd expertly captures the essence of an intelligent young woman grappling with the injustices she faces while balancing the complexity of youth, societal expectations, and the desire to effect change.’
Adam Skubala - The Scoop | Read Review Here
‘Emma Kidd’s opening monologue as the armed woman was another gut-punch, reminding us with raw conviction that: “women gave us peace.”’
Stage Buzz Brisbane | Read Review here
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Past Ad Astra Productions
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THEATRE
2025 – The Case of The Butterfly in the Jar (Immersive Theatre), Anywhere Theatre Festival, Actor – Hatty (The Detective)
2025 – Welcome to Thebes (Theatre), Queensland Conservatorium, Actor – Megaera/Eunomia
2025 – Blue Stockings (Theatre), Queensland Conservatorium, Costume Designer, Actor – Tess Moffatt
2024 – Butter (Theatre), Queensland Conservatorium, Costume Designer, Actor – Max
2024 – Much Ado About Nothing (School Touring Theatre), Queensland Conservatorium, Costume Designer, Actor – Hero/Seacole
2023 – Philistines (Theatre), Queensland Conservatorium, Costume Designer, Actor – Tatyana
2022 – An Enemy of the People (Theatre), Queensland Theatre Youth Ensemble, Actor – Dr Thomas Stockmann
FILM
2025 – VOX (Short Film), Griffith Film School, Actor – Iris
2025 – Sam n’ Ella (Web Series), Girlwood Co., Actor – Sam
2025 – Customer Service (Animated Short Film), Griffith Film School, Voice Over – Dorothy/Perrie/Extras
2024 – Bush Bash (Web Series), Griffith Film School, Actor – Ayesha
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2023 - 2025 – Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University, Bachelor of Acting
2025 – Training for High-Level Performance, Meisner, Rob Horton
2022 – Queensland Theatre’s Youth Performance Ensemble
2017 - 2022 – All Hallow’s School, Theatresports, Sue Pearn
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BMEG – Better Management Entertainment Group