Emily Axford

Emily Axford is an American actress, writer, composer, and producer. She is best known for her various roles in CollegeHumor videos, her role as Emily on the truTV comedy Adam Ruins Everything, and for her role on the Pop original Hot Date.

Early life and education Axford grew up in the suburbs of Albany, New York. She attended Bethlehem Central High School, just south of Albany. She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in religion from George Washington University in 2007. At GWU, she was a part of the co-ed improv troupe called ReceSs. After college, Axford studied at the Upright Citizens Brigade in New York City and then Los Angeles, where she first ventured into internet sketch comedy.

Career From 2011 to 2017, Axford was a writer and actress for digital comedy company CollegeHumor. In 2017, Axford transitioned to working as an executive producer and actress on the Pop show Hot Date, which had begun as a web series for CollegeHumor, alongside her husband Brian Murphy. From 2015 to 2019, Axford co-starred in both the College Humor and TruTV iterations of Adam Ruins Everything.

Axford and Murphy co-wrote HEY, U UP? (For a Serious Relationship): How to Turn Your Booty Call into Your Emergency Contact, a satirical relationship advice book that was published in 2018. She and Murphy have, in conjunction with Caldwell Tanner, hosted 8-Bit Book Club (2016–2018), a podcast in which they read and discussed video game novels.

Axford participates in a variety of actual play web series where she plays tabletop role-playing games. She is a player and occasional gamemaster in the HeadGum podcast Not Another D&D Podcast with Murphy, Tanner, and Jake Hurwitz. Axford is a primary cast member of Dimension 20, an actual play anthology web series created in 2018 by CollegeHumor for the streaming service Dropout, and Dimension 20'''s talk-back show Adventuring Party. She has starred as a variety of characters between the two shows' several campaigns, most of which utilize Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition. In 2023, Axford appeared as a guest player in the third campaign of Critical Role''.

Filmography Television

Web

Video games