Emanuel is a produced, multi award-winning writer-director-actor and a graduate of the coveted N.H.M.C. TV Writers' Program and the ScreenWritingU's ProSeries, feature film writing program. And, for the past six years, Emanuel has worked with a global ad agency as a producer-director and social media writer. Emanuel was made to the beat of the bongo drums in Havana, Cuba, is fully bilingual and graduated from the University of Miami with a B.F.A. in theater. Soon after, he was hired as a video DJ for the Univision Network and a DJ for WHYI Y-100, a top 40 radio station. Emanuel went on to be artistic director of his own theater company and played the villain in many popular telenovelas and TV series on Telemundo and Univision. Emanuel has given back by teaching filmmaking and theater in the inner city for many years to "at risk" youth and MS-13 gang members via the L.A.U.S.D. and The East L.A. Classic Theater.