About

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Emily Simonian is a songwriter, recording artist, published author, and musical theatre composer, lyricist, and librettist. She earned a merit scholarship to attend Berklee College of Music and later completed her B.F.A. in Contemporary Music at Musicians Institute in Los Angeles. In 2024, she returned to Berklee to complete additional online coursework in songwriting and basic music production—further developing her skills as a writer for other artists and expanding technical fluency in the evolving landscape of music creation.

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Pop & Songwriting

Simonian is a genre-fluid songwriter whose work spans pop, indie pop, dance-pop, and musical theatre. After taking time away from performing to compose for theatre, she is now returning to recording her own songs with a renewed artistic identity and a sharpened craft. In September 2025, she was selected for the Women in Music Mentorship Program—an honor awarded to just 10% of applicants—where she is being mentored by acclaimed artist-development coach Wendy Parr (The Parr Method). Alongside performing her own material, Emily is actively writing for other artists and building a collaborative network across the industry. She maintains a robust catalog of original songs ready for placement.

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Musical Theatre

Emily’s original musical When Two of Us Meet, inspired by her Armenian ancestors’ emigration to America in the early 20th century, has been hailed by early reviewers as “a Broadway-worthy stage production.” The two-act musical was awarded the Laurel Karabian Fund for the Arts Grant from the Armenian International Women’s Association and received a concert reading in New York City in Spring 2025. That same season, the Embassy of Armenia partnered with Emily to host a private concert presentation in Washington, D.C. The musical was also named a top 12 finalist for the 2025 Florida Festival of New Musicals and a top 10 finalist for the 2025 Colorado New Musical Project. Her work in musical theatre has been featured in numerous new works cabarets and has attracted multiple visionary sponsors who believe in the power and promise of her voice as a composer and lyricist.

Learn more about When Two of Us Meet here. 

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Additional Work

Simonian has a Master’s degree in Psychology and integrates music and art into therapeutic practice. Her contributions to mental health conversations have been featured in outlets such as TIME, The Washington Post, Newsweek, HuffPost, Healthline, Cosmopolitan, InStyle, and Women’s Health, where she frequently speaks on the intersection of music and mental health. 

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Emily is a member of ASCAP, the Dramatists Guild, Maestra Music, Women In Music, and Musical Writers Academy.