Q&A with the Playwright and Cast | SECOND STAR TO THE RIGHT
by Abby Lee, Dramaturg The Rod Parker Playwriting Fellowship is the first time for many students to directly engage with a new work in performance, and it’s the first time…
Interview with the Playwright and Director | 16 WINTERS
by Maddie Thorpe, Dramaturg I met with guest artists Mary Hamilton and Aneesha Kudtarkar to discuss 16 Winters, their collaboration, and working with the Emerson community. Here is a transcript…
Interview with the Playwright | MASTODONS
by Sofia Lindgren Galloway “I think part of the excitement of being on stage is that you get to make impossible things happen.” Just after the new year, I was…
Dramaturg’s Note | MARY, SWEET MARY
by Dramaturg, Lara Brinkman Mary, Sweet Mary explores the power dynamics between royal and commoner in Elizabethan England. The play follows Queen Elizabeth I and explores her anxieties over her…
MARY, SWEET MARY | Q&A with the Playwright
by Dramaturg/Observing Director Lara Brinkman Mary, Sweet Mary is a new play written by Emerson senior Munroe Shearer. It tells the story of Queen Elizabeth I of England as she…
Dramaturg’s Note | OLD JAKE’S SKIRTS
by Kayla Tomas “It’s about coming from a frame of reference that the idea of magic is possible: it’s a faster way to the heart.” – José Cruz González (Playwright)…
A conversation with the playwright | OLD JAKE’S SKIRTS
by Kayla Tomas, Dramaturg Adapted from C. Anne Scott’s novel of the same name, Old Jake’s Skirts follows the journey of Old Jake, a hermit farmer, carving out a life…
New Play Workshop | Director’s Note and Vision
Directors’ notes traditionally welcome and orient an audience to the work that they are about to witness together. The goal of the note is often to begin forging a connection…
Dramaturg’s Note for “Amanuensis, or The Miltons” by L M Feldman
By Henry Aceves, Production Dramaturg (NewFest New Play Workshop: Amanuensis, or The Miltons) Our playwright, L, describes Amanuensis, or The Miltons as “a tale, a grapple, a loosely-historically-based feminist fantasia.”…