A Note from the Dramaturg: The Devil On Your Shoulder
By Grace Burns, Dramaturg, The Devil On Your Shoulder The transition into collegiate life can be isolating and tumultuous for many new students. Striking the class-life balance, living away from…
Q&A With Miles Millikan, Sugar Plums Molding Playwright
Emerson Stage’s annual evening of student-written NewFest Shorts will take place at the Semel Theater on Saturday, March 23. I reached out to playwright Miles Millikan, BFA ‘21, about the…
Q&A With Caleb Palmer, The Devil On Your Shoulder Playwright
Emerson Stage’s production of The Devil On Your Shoulder, winner of the Rod Parker Playwriting Award, opens at the Greene Theater on Thursday, March 14. I reached out to playwright…
Stefanie Zadravec: A “Write-What-You-Don’t-Know” Playwright
By Victoria Brancazio Dramaturg, Tiny Houses Emerson Stage’s NewFest New Play Workshop presents Tiny Houses, a play following the 2014 MH17 plane crash where three women find hope and agency…
From the Dramaturg – Who Donut?
By Jessica Costas Dramaturg – Who Donut? Hello and welcome to Arden Jurskis and Kenzy Peach’s ode to Boston, Who Donut?. Originally from Florida and California respectively, Jurskis and Peach…
An Interview with Brazen Playwrights
BE BOLD, BE BRAZEN: An Interview with Melia Bensussen, Brazen Director and Playwright, and Masha Obolensky, Playwright The director and playwright of Brazen, Melia Bensussen and her co-playwright, Masha Obolensky have…
Conversation with Katherine Logan and Alex Henderson of ‘Click’
By Production Dramaturg Noah Pattillo (’18) In Click, a new play by Jacqueline Goldfinger premiering at Emerson next week, Katherine Logan (’18) plays Fresh, a young woman whose life is…
Get Ready for NewFest’s ‘Living Will’ with a Detective Game!
By Production Dramaturg Clare Lockhart This year’s selection for The Rod Parker Playwriting Award is Living Will by Renee Lafond. In Living Will, married couple Roy and Amelia have committed a crime and are…
We Are Pussy Riot: Context for This New Play
We Are Pussy Riot or (Everything Is P.R.), this year’s NewFest New Works Festival’s Workshop Production, opens on March 31 in the Greene Theater. We Are Pussy Riot is, in fact,…