Emily Shaffer

Shaffer was born in Clarksburg, West Virginia. She attended Robert C. Byrd High School, and graduated from West Virginia University with a degree in Bachelor of Fine Arts, Acting / Minor in Dance.^[3] Her mother is a Catholic school teacher and her father is a lawyer with his own private practice. She has one sister named Hannah.^{[citation needed]}

Shaffer appeared in productions sponsored by Jigsaw Theatre and West Virginia Public Theatre. In 2010 she performed in He’s Coming Up the Stairs at Empire Stage in Fort Lauderdale.^[4]

Shaffer got her start acting on television on HBO's How to Make It in America (2011). She was a guest star in the pilot for the NBC series Chicago Med, a spin off of Chicago Fire and Chicago P.D.^[3]

She later had theatrical roles at the Gladys G. Davis Theatre and the New York Theatre Workshop.^[5] In 2018 she performed in It's a Wonderful Life, staged by Virginia Public Theatre.^[6]

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• Vampire Academy: Blood Promise 2010
• Vampire Academy: Spirit Bound 2010
• Vampire Academy: Last Sacrifice 2010
• Bloodlines 2011
• The Golden Lily 2012
• The Indigo Spell 2013
• Gameboard of the Gods 2013
• The Fiery Heart 2013
• The Immortal Crown 2014
• The Ruby Circle 2015
• Silver Shadows 2017
• Minecraft: The Lost Journals 2019
• The Grace Year 2019
• Minecraft: The End 2019
• Light Changes Everything 2020
• Tweet Cute 2020
• Hush 2020
• The Wife Upstairs 2021
• The Project 2021
• All Girls 2021
• The House Uptown 2021
• Trouble Girls 2021
• League of Liars 2022
• Veil 2022
• Minecraft: Mob Squad: Don’t Fear the Creeper 2022
• Moongarden 2023
• Seagarden 2024
• Ashgarden 2024

• It’s A Wonderful Life, Mary Bailey, West Virginia Public Theatre^[7]
• Human, Frosty, Reading – directed by Jerry Zaks^[8]
• Vinegar Tom, Alice, West Virginia University^[9]
• Much Ado About Nothing, Beatrice, West Virginia University^[10]
• The Seagull, Nina, West Virginia University^[11]