UPDATES
Encores! Love Life
March 2025
Spring 2025, Emma assisted Two-Time Tony Award Winner, Victoria Clark, on Love Life in the acclaimed New York City Center Encores! Series.
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NYCC Encores! Debut!
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Read more about the 2024-2025 Encores! Series HERE.
2024/2025 HArold Prince-Kurt Weill Directing Fellow
September 2024-March 2025
Fall 2024, Emma was award the Harold Prince-Kurt Weill Directing Fellowship.
This award came for her position and work on Love Life at New York City Center Encores! Her research & pre-production work as an AD, plus prior experience, and dedication to the musical theatre art form stood out to the Kurt Weill Foundation.
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Read more about the KWF Fellowship program HERE.
(This is Emma's second Fellowship in a one year span and all under the age of 25!)
Spring Awakening
April 2024
Emma directed a production of Spring Awakening at the ART/NY's Jeffery and Paula Gural Theatre in Hell's Kitchen.
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See production photos HERE.
Poster Design by McKayla Witt
SDCF Charles ABBott Fellowship
November-December 2023
Emma was selected as the Recipient for Stage Directors and Choreographers Workshop Foundation's (SDCF) 11th Annual Charles Abbott Fellowship. As a newly minted Associate Member of SDC Union, Emma is honored and excited!
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This Fellowship will take her to work as an Assistant Director on Paper Mill Playhouse's production of Fiddler on the Roof with Artistic Director & Director, Mark S. Hoebee.
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Read about the SDCF Fellowship HERE
The Muny
Summer 2023
Emma was selected as one of the Assistant Directors for The Muny's 2023 Season.
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She assisted on Chess (Dir: Josh Rhodes)
and RENT (Dir: Lili-Anne Brown).
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Check out photos of the productions Emma assisted on HERE.
Taking Over Your Life
February 2023
Emma directed Taking Over Your Life at Gallery Players in their annual Blackbox New Play Festival.
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See production photos HERE.
LIZZIE: THE MUSICAL
February 2022
Emma directed Lizzie: The Musical for her Senior Thesis at Boston University School of Theatre.
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See production photos HERE.
Poster Design by Clarice Reiner
Poster Design by Danielle DeLaFuente
DRY LAND
March 2021 &
September 2021
Emma produced and directed Ruby Rae Spiegel’s Dry Land. She was awarded 3 grants for the project (including the Boston Mayor's Office of Arts and Culture , and it was accompanied by several community engagement events - including fundraising for Planned Parenthood, a talk back series, and a series of panels hosted by BU Students for Reproductive Freedom.
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Check out an article written about the project HERE