Emily Mayo Jeopardy Profile: Age, Job, Family, Stats

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Emily Mayo is a Brooklyn, New York–based Broadway advertising professional, arts administrator, producer, director, writer and theatremaker. She currently works at The Pekoe Group, a New York advertising agency specializing in Broadway and theatrical campaigns, where her own biography describes her position as Account Associate/Project Manager. Public professional listings also identify her as an Account Associate. In that capacity, she has worked on Broadway advertising accounts including SIX and Operation Mincemeat, and her name appears in the advertising/social-media credits for SIX. In 2026, she has also represented Pekoe as an industry writer: Broadway News has published her pieces about the different kinds of content shoots used in Broadway campaigns, terminology involved in building show websites, and how theatrical advertising agencies manage accounts and action items.

Mayo is originally from just outside Washington, D.C. and says she was born and raised there before eventually establishing herself in Brooklyn. She attended Brown University from 2021 to 2024, graduating with a B.A. in History, a concentration that focused particularly on gender, war and the ancient world, together with an arts-management focus. Her professional résumé lists an exceptionally strong 3.95 cumulative GPA and membership in Phi Beta Kappa. At Brown, she was heavily involved in both theatre and campus organizations: she served as president/co-chair of Musical Forum Productions, Editor-in-Chief of the Brown History Journal, secretary of Brown-Providence Original Photography and a Meiklejohn Peer Advisor, while also participating in Brown Arts Institute’s ArtsCorps. As a Musical Forum leader, she helped restructure its production board, coordinated staffing and scheduling across seven full-length/festival productions, and managed rehearsal schedules and production timelines.

Her interest in theatre began unusually early. Mayo has recounted that at approximately nine years old, an elementary-school teacher offered students chocolate as an incentive to read the complete text of Julius Caesar. She took up the challenge, became fascinated with Shakespeare and reportedly read another five or six Shakespeare plays that same summer. Her interest subsequently developed alongside a strong fascination with history. At Brown, she became particularly interested in reinterpreting classical works through contemporary perspectives, often foregrounding questions of gender, sexuality and historically marginalized experiences.

Her Brown directing work was extensive. She co-directed a 1920s garden interpretation of Much Ado About Nothing, one of Brown’s first live theatrical productions following the COVID-era interruption; directed Julius Caesar in a women’s-college/girls’-boarding-school setting with a non-male-identifying cast; and directed an in-the-round production of Anne Carson’s Antigone/Antigonick. She has additionally worked on a site-specific garden production of As You Like It and collaborated on an unofficial musical adaptation of Madeline Miller’s The Song of Achilles, for which she was the book writer/dramaturg. She has also worked as a stage manager, assistant director, production manager, music director, designer and performer; at Brown she stage-managed and assistant-directed A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder, acted in Twelfth Night and played Philario in Cymbeline while studying abroad at King’s College London.

Before entering Broadway advertising, Mayo accumulated a particularly broad set of theatre-management, producing, marketing, development and administration credits. She was a Summer General Management Intern at RCI Theatricals from June–August 2024, supporting Broadway productions including Hadestown, & Juliet, Our Town and Gypsy. Her work included coordinating crew travel, researching hospitality and rehearsal requirements, maintaining records covering more than 50 current and closed Broadway productions, liaising among roughly 8–10 management teams and helping organize special events. She was a Communications/Marketing Intern at Irish Arts Center from June 2023–June 2024, working on advertising copy, marketing materials, artist assets and partnership research.

Her earlier positions included a January 2024 institutional giving/development internship with The Community Builders, an artistic internship at Wilbury Theatre Group in Providence in late 2022, an Artistic Administration/Casting Internship/Acting Artistic Assistant position with the Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey in summer 2022, a winter development internship with Essential Partners in January 2022, and work as a Producer/Dramaturg with Whitman Drama in Bethesda from May 2019 to June 2020. At Whitman, she helped coordinate productions involving budgets of approximately $30,000 and artistic companies exceeding 100 people. Across Whitman Drama, Brown and Wilbury, Mayo says she has produced eight full-length productions, several showcases and a short film, working with teams ranging from fewer than 10 people to more than 200.

Her post-college theatrical work extends beyond Pekoe. Mayo has worked as an opening-night assistant for 101 Productions, including Sunset Boulevard, and has provided front-of-house/opening-night support for 101 Productions, RCI Theatricals and Irish Arts Center. She was production manager for the American premiere of Sue Pam-Grant’s Why do Moths Fly like Crazy Fucks in the Night? and has described producing a site-specific Romeo and Juliet in Riverside Park. Her résumé also lists skills spanning Microsoft Office, Google Workspace, Adobe InDesign, Canva, Squarespace, QuickBooks and theatre/fundraising database systems such as Theatre Manager, eTapestry and Instrumentl, along with stage management, music literacy, travel planning and an 89-WPM typing speed.

On a personal level, Mayo publicly uses she/her pronouns. Her personal biography says that outside work she enjoys baking, following Survivor, searching for good coffee around New York City and updating/using Goodreads. Her professional and artistic writing also makes clear that feminist and queer experiences are recurring subjects of her creative work; however, that artistic focus does not establish her own sexual orientation or relationship status, so I have left those fields unspecified. Likewise, I found no reliable public source establishing her date of birth, age, family/relationship status, or ethnicity.

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