Emily Horton is a DC based Lighting Technician, currently on her second tour as the Head Electrician on Wild Kratts Live 2.0, and also works as a freelance Field Technician with 4Wall DC. She is experienced in installing electrics in both the theatrical and corporate worlds, as a member of touring road crew and as a local. She has worked as Head Electrician on the second national tour of Mean Girls, at Glimmerglass Opera as can Assistant Production Electrician, and toured as an Assistant Head Electrician with Blue Man Group. 

Previous experience includes working as a Technical Assistant at the Ferguson Center for the Arts, a location that she has returned to multiple times since college when she worked there as a Student Technician. She also worked at Busch Gardens Williamsburg, where she held multiple positions over three years of employment. 

She graduated from Christopher Newport University in April 2019, where she studied Technical Theatre, focusing in Lighting. While at CNU she held the roles of Master Electrician, Electrician, and Spotlight Operator for multiple TheaterCNU productions, and was a Designer for the Theater and Dance department's Dance Concert.