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Emily McClanathan is a freelance arts journalist and critic based in Chicago. Her work has appeared in the Chicago Tribune, Chicago Magazine, Chicago Reader, American Theatre, INTO, Newcity, Playbill, Sixty Inches from Center, and Windy City Times. Theater, books, and classical music are her specialties, but you'll sometimes find her writing about museums, visual arts, film scores, and figure skating, too.
Earlier in her career, Emily worked in communications roles at Chicago Shakespeare Theater and the Chicago Symphony. She studied music, history, and English as an undergraduate and holds a Master of Arts in modern history from King's College London. Emily is an alum of the National Critics Institute at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center.