Playwright

From her humble roots making-believe in her backyard, through to sold-out shows in New York City, Emily has been creating stories for people to act for over 30 years.

While many of her shows are inspired by classical stories, myths and legends, Emily has also written original work across a wide variety of styles.

Playwright Timeline

  • 1991 - At the age of 13, Emily writes her first professional play, Fractured Glass, a fractured fairy tale based on Cinderella.  It plays to hundreds of children and their parents.
  • 1995 - Emily seriously attempts her first well-structured play, writing The French Butler, a three-act homage to Oscar Wildean farces.
  • 1998 - The French Butler receives its world premiere at Anathan Theatre in Ohio.
  • 2003 - Emily completes and produces her first serious opera-ballet, Bearskin, based on the Faustian fairy tale.
  • 2005 - King of Fools, Emily's first full-length musical receives a developmental production with the Hudson Drama Society.
  • 2008 - While pursuing her Master's degree, Emily switches to writing in blank verse, beginning with Cupid and Psyche.
  • 2009 - Playscripts, Inc. publishes Emily's first play, the farcial Wallace's Will.  This is quickly followed by the publication of three more plays, and inclusion in a monologue anthology.
  • 2013 - Emily founds TURN TO FLESH PRODUCTIONS, which the following year premieres a workshop production of her Cupid and Psyche.  It plays to sold-out audiences in NYC.
  • 2018 - Emily's Shakespearean inspired plays in blank verse are given recognition: her Merry Widows of Windsor workshopping at the Sheen Center in NYC, while her Comedy of Heirors is named one of the Top 15 NYC Shows of 2017.

Latest Publications

A Nutcracker Story
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Drawing from the Tchaikovsky ballet and E. T. A. Hoffman's original tale, A Nutcracker Story is part play, part musical, part ballet…and all magic. On Christmas Eve in 1812 Russia, Clara Silberhaus is only one sleep away from entering the world of adulthood. But with the last vestiges of war on the horizon, her father’s life in danger and a rather irritating—and handsome—young prince come for the festivities, is growing up what Clara really wants? With a little help from her mysterious Uncle Drosselmeier, can Clara dance past her fears (and some troublesome rats) and into a land of newfound courage and a little holiday hope?  YouthPLAYS
The Light Princess
When a Princess is cursed with a lack of gravity, it seems the worst that can happen is that she might float around! But the curse goes deeper than that: for the Light Princess can’t feel, can’t empathize—and never, ever cries. How can a girl who can’t fall down ever fall in love? How can a girl with her head in the clouds ever learn to live with her feet on the ground? Full of action, adventure, witches and duels, swimming and soaring, puppets and puns, this innovative adaptation of George MacDonald’s classic fairy tale is sure to lift your spirits. YouthPLAYS

Plays by Genre

Verse Plays

Shakespearean
All's Well That Ends.
Juliet and Romeo
The Merry Widows of Windsor
A Midsummer Night's Brexit
A Comedy of Heirors, or The Impostors  (Pictured below.)
Medieval
The Table Round
The Siege Perilous
To the Dark Tower Came

Greek
Persephone Rises
The Seduction of Adonis
Cupid and Psyche (Pictured below)
Vengeance Becomes Electra
Turn to Flesh

French Farce
The Other, Other Woman  (Pictured below)

Farce

A Comedy of Murders (Farce)
The Accidental Assassin (Farce)
Wallace's Will (Comedy of Manners)
The French Butler (Comedy of Manners)
Occupy Walmart (Short Comedy)

Modern Plays

More Human (Near Future Drama)
Math for Actors (Modern Comedy)
Perfect As You Are (Short Play; Real Issues)
In Memoriam (Speculative Fiction Drama)

Musicals

King of Fools (Musical)
Pink Noir (Musical)
Bearskin (Opera Ballet)
Snow Queen (Opera - In Development)
The Steadfast Tin Soldier (Opera - In Development)
A Nutcracker Story (Story in Dance)
A Christmas Carol (Play with Music - Pictured below)
The Light Princess (Play with Music)
Titanic on the Roof (Pastiche)
Against the Odds (Pastiche)
Skool (Pastiche)
The Nativity (Masque)
The Passion Play (Masque - Pictured Below)

Grimms Aghast Series

Charming Princes (Cinderella/Frog Prince)
Crying Wolf (Three Little Pigs/Little Red/Boy Who Cried Wolf)
No Boys Allowed (Rapunzel & Co.)
Snowier White (Snow White)
Fractured Glass (Cinderella)
Pucker Up! (Frog Prince & Co.)
Goldilocks on Trial (Goldilocks, Rumplestiltskin)
Curses! (Sleeping Beauty - Pictured below)

Dinner Theatre

Heirs & Errors (Mystery Dinner Theatre - Commission)
The Duh Vinci Affair (Mystery Dinner Theatre - Commission)

Event Plays

Coraggio! (Interactive Theatre for Young Audiences)
Heaven Help Us (Interactive Theatre for Young Audiences)
One Nation (Spoken Word)