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EMMELINE "EMMY" KAYLEE CORCORAN

AGE: 31

BIRTHDAY: January 31st, 1993

RELATION: Half sibling

TYPE: Twin

GENDER: Ciswoman

PRONOUNS: She/Her

ORIENTATION(S): Demisexual lesbian

FACE CLAIM: Elizabeth Olsen

JOB/SCHOOL

JOB: Cello & Music Theory Professor at PSU, member of the Dopamine String Quartet

ALUMNI?: Alumni

ABOUT

[TW: DEPRESSION, ANXIETY]

Emmeline was always the quietest of the Corcoran family and found her solace in spending time alone. She found that she always had a hard time speaking, and didn’t think that her opinions were really all that valid, and when growing up with an actor as famous as her dad was, Emmy wanted to make sure that anything she said was with intention and not stupid. She flew under the radar in school until third grade, when all students were invited to join the school’s violin group lessons. Very quickly, the strings teachers realized that Emmy had a gift and encouraged her parents to enroll her in private lessons. Emmy eventually switched to the cello and knew she’d found her home.

From then on, Emmy spent most of her life in orchestras. Her parents did attempt to get her involved in sports or theatre but the second she was put under pressure or had to open her mouth to speak in front of people it was instant waterworks. Emmy was known primarily as the quiet cello girl but also the strangest of the Corcoran siblings, who all were more well-adjusted than she was.

When the time for college rolled around, Emmy had little to show in terms of well-roundedness and really only had her natural prowess on the cello to show for her high school education. She’d won every award possible for a higher schooler to win on the cello, so Julliard and PSU were both on the docket for her. Wanting to finally try and stake it out on her own, Emmy decided on Julliard and moved to New York City.

As much as she wanted Julliard to be this wonderful place for her, it was– at least in the beginning. Emmy quickly shook the school up by winning the concerto competition as a freshman. Things went downhill from there, though. Emmy became the victim of a tremendously cruel smear campaign, in which her reputation was demolished. As a late bloomer, it was pretty embarrassing for Emmy to have a reputation of having slept with a judge to win the competition. At the time, Emmy had never even been kissed, and found the rumor humiliating and degrading. Romance has always been a tough subject for Emmy, who constantly has felt like less than for her entire life. Her anxiety and self-esteem issues prevented Emmy from going to any sort of level of trust with another person where she could see herself falling in love, but that was beside the point. With no one around to support her, Emmy left Julliard and went back home to LA. PSU it was.

PSU was overall a good experience for Emmy, who found her niche and found her friend group, finally. Despite her own struggles and hardships with anxiety, she truly found that she had a place where it almost felt like she belonged. With new beginnings came Emmy’s first ever (in about nine rps) experience with love, and that did bring about her own form of heartbreak, too. After leaving PSU to go off into the real world, Emmy ended up working for the Manhattan School of Music as a grad assistant while getting her masters degree in cello performance. She worked her way through the ranks of local orchestras until she eventually landed her audition as first chair in the LA Philharmonic. Emmy is happy to be back home and happy to be with her siblings. 

While Emmy did attempt a career as a professional cellist, she very quickly found that life in the classical music fast lane was not something that she enjoyed as much as she wanted to. While she still felt the most at home sawing away on her cello, the pressure of being in front of thousands of people in an audience has been triggering her anxiety again. Emmy did play for the New York Phil and Los Angeles Phil, but she now is playing in a string quartet that is making a name for itself doing covers of classical music for period television shows. Emmy has returned to PSU as a professor for the last two years and is really enjoying fostering a love of music in her students. Emmy much prefers working one on one with others, but she’s also teaching a music theory course and is finding it a great challenge. She doesn’t think she’s really cut out for teaching, but at least it’s a decent step while she figures out what to do with the performance aspect of her life.

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EMMELINE CORCORAN

☆ FULL NAME: Emmeline "Emmy" Kaylee Corcoran ☆ GENDER: Ciswoman ☆ PRONOUNS: She/Her ☆ AGE: 31 (January 31st, 1993) ☆ TYPE: Full sibling; twin ☆ HOMETOWN: New York City, New York ☆ JOB: Cello & Music Theory professor @ PSU; Member of the Dopamine String Quartet ☆ SCHOOL: PSU Alumni ☆ SEXUALITY: Demisexual/Panromantic ☆ FACECLAIM: Elizabeth Olsen

ABOUT EMMELINE

[TW: DEPRESSION, ANXIETY]

Emmeline was always the quietest of the Corcoran family and found her solace in spending time alone. She found that she always had a hard time speaking, and didn’t think that her opinions were really all that valid, and when growing up with an actor as famous as her dad was, Emmy wanted to make sure that anything she said was with intention and not stupid. She flew under the radar in school until third grade, when all students were invited to join the school’s violin group lessons. Very quickly, the strings teachers realized that Emmy had a gift and encouraged her parents to enroll her in private lessons. Emmy eventually switched to the cello and knew she’d found her home.

From then on, Emmy spent most of her life in orchestras. Her parents did attempt to get her involved in sports or theatre but the second she was put under pressure or had to open her mouth to speak in front of people it was instant waterworks. Emmy was known primarily as the quiet cello girl but also the strangest of the Corcoran siblings, who all were more well-adjusted than she was.

When the time for college rolled around, Emmy had little to show in terms of well-roundedness and really only had her natural prowess on the cello to show for her high school education. She’d won every award possible for a higher schooler to win on the cello, so Julliard and PSU were both on the docket for her. Wanting to finally try and stake it out on her own, Emmy decided on Julliard and moved to New York City.

As much as she wanted Julliard to be this wonderful place for her, it was– at least in the beginning. Emmy quickly shook the school up by winning the concerto competition as a freshman. Things went downhill from there, though. Emmy became the victim of a tremendously cruel smear campaign, in which her reputation was demolished. As a late bloomer, it was pretty embarrassing for Emmy to have a reputation of having slept with a judge to win the competition. At the time, Emmy had never even been kissed, and found the rumor humiliating and degrading. Romance has always been a tough subject for Emmy, who constantly has felt like less than for her entire life. Her anxiety and self-esteem issues prevented Emmy from going to any sort of level of trust with another person where she could see herself falling in love, but that was beside the point. With no one around to support her, Emmy left Julliard and went back home to LA. PSU it was.

PSU was overall a good experience for Emmy, who found her niche and found her friend group, finally. Despite her own struggles and hardships with anxiety, she truly found that she had a place where it almost felt like she belonged. With new beginnings came Emmy’s first ever (in about nine rps) experience with love, and that did bring about her own form of heartbreak, too. After leaving PSU to go off into the real world, Emmy ended up working for the Manhattan School of Music as a grad assistant while getting her masters degree in cello performance. She worked her way through the ranks of local orchestras until she eventually landed her audition as first chair in the LA Philharmonic. Emmy is happy to be back home and happy to be with her siblings. 

While Emmy did attempt a career as a professional cellist, she very quickly found that life in the classical music fast lane was not something that she enjoyed as much as she wanted to. While she still felt the most at home sawing away on her cello, the pressure of being in front of thousands of people in an audience has been triggering her anxiety again. Emmy did play for the New York Phil and Los Angeles Phil, but she now is playing in a string quartet that is making a name for itself doing covers of classical music for period television shows. Emmy has returned to PSU as a professor for the last two years and is really enjoying fostering a love of music in her students. Emmy much prefers working one on one with others, but she’s also teaching a music theory course and is finding it a great challenge. She doesn’t think she’s really cut out for teaching, but at least it’s a decent step while she figures out what to do with the performance aspect of her life.

FAMILY BACKGROUND

The Corcoran family consists of Shelby Corcoran, a renowned and legendary Broadway star, most famous in theatre for her portrayal of Donna in the 20th Anniversary production of Mamma Mia, Diana Goodman in Next to Normal, but she achieved huge success when she was cast as Fantine in the movie adaptation of Les Miserables, and her children. Shelby has been a Broadway legend for most of her life, starting when she landed the standby for Elphaba in Wicked. She has three Tony awards and an Emmy, and she’s looking forward to being the first mom of five to achieve an EGOT.

Although Shelby has entered into a few seemingly solid relationships, each one producing a child, she has never been able to keep a tight enough grasp for them to move on further than short-lived engagements. For Shelby, who is an excellent mother, her work and her children are her life, and a man has just never slotted perfectly enough into that. While some of the fathers are still in the picture, Shelby has always had a higher percentage of custody, and holds the title “Mom” in higher regard than any of her many awards and work-based achievements.