“Emily James hits all the right notes as a young woman who is simultaneously saint-like and fed up with carrying every burden with a smile.” -Stage Raw (Rogue Machine’s Heroes of the Fourth Turning)
“In James’s sensitive work, we immediately gravitate toward this kind and seriously ill young woman…Given how beautifully fleshed out and complicated James’s performance is, Emily is fascinating not because she earns any kind of pity, but because she is the play’s moral compass.” -Broadway World (Rogue Machine’s Heroes of the Fourth Turning)
“James’ Theresa is captivating in her combination of precocious intelligence and radical innocence.” -LA Times (South Coast Rep’s Mr. Wolf)
“Emily James is terrific as the actress’ sputteringly angry daughter.”-LA Times (Geffen Playhouse’s Stage Kiss)
“This production jumps to vivid life due largely to Emily James’ impressively, passionately intense Antigone. Small, and physically fragile, James’ heroine is vibrantly resolute…riveting from start to end, she is impossible not to watch.” -San Gabriel Valley Tribune (Antigone at A Noise within)
“The central figure of Theresa is beautifully enacted by Emily James...the actress skillfully lures viewers into her private world with a mixture of precociousness and naivete.” -Daily Pilot (SCR’s Mr. Wolf)
“Sara’s grown daughter, Tess, is thoughtfully interpreted by Emily James, who supplies more than the role demands.” -LA Times (SCR’s Sister’s Rosensweig)
“James made her Equity-qualifying professional debut in Rajiv Joseph's demanding Mr. Wolf at South Coast Repertory, and just appeared in Sarah Ruhl's Stage Kiss at the Geffen Playhouse. If Wolf was the former CSUF student's master's thesis, Smoke is her brief but spectacular doctoral dissertation. The restrained power and rage behind the girlish innocence is the caginess that defines the character, and the craft that commends the actor.” -Theatertimes (Smoke at Rogue Machine Theatre)