Emily Mann (director)

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Emily Mann is the multi-award winning Artistic Director and Resident Playwright of McCarter Theatre in Princeton, New Jersey, where she has overseen over 85 productions.

A winner of the Dramatists Guild of America Hull-Warriner Award, Ms. Mann is a member of the Dramatists Guild and serves on its Council. In 2002 she received an Honorary Doctorate of Arts from Princeton University.

1 Works
- 1.1 Directing
- 1.2 Writing
2 References

[edit] Works

[edit] Directing

Some of her thirty McCarter directing credits include:

The world premiere of Miss Witherspoon by Christopher Durang (also Off-Broadway at Playwrights Horizons),
The world premiere of The Bells by Theresa Rebeck,
The world premiere of Last of the Boys by Steven Dietz
Nilo Cruz's Anna in the Tropics at McCarter and on Broadway with Jimmy Smits (2003 Pulitzer Prize, two Tony nominations)
Anton Chekhov's Uncle Vanya (also adapted) with Amanda Plummer
Edward Albee's All Over with Rosemary Harris and Michael Learned and at Roundabout Theater Company (Obie Awards for her direction and for Rosemary Harris's performance)
The Tempest with Blair Brown, Romeo and Juliet with Sarah Drew and Jeffrey Carlson
The Cherry Orchard (also adapted) with Jane Alexander and Avery Brooks
I.B. Singer's Meshugah (adaptor and director) with Elizabeth Marvel
The American premiere of The Mai by Marina Carr
The world premiere of Anna Deveare Smith's Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992, (also at the Mark Taper Forum)
Federico García Lorca's The House of Bernarda Alba (also adapted) with Helen Carey
The world premiere of Joyce Carol Oates' The Perfectionist
August Strindberg's Miss Julie (also adapted) with Kim Cattrall, Donna Murphy and Peter Francis James
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof with Pat Hingle and JoBeth Williams
Chekhov's Three Sisters with Frances McDormand, Linda Hunt, and Mary Stuart Masterson
Betsey Brown (co-author with Baikida Carroll and Ntozake Shange)
The Glass Menagerie with Shirley Knight, Dylan McDermott and Judy Kuhn.

[edit] Writing

Author of Greensboro (A Requiem)
Author and director of Execution of Justice at The Guthrie Theatre and on Broadway (winner of the HBO New Plays USA award, the Helen Hayes Award, the Bay Area Critics Circle Award, and nominated for a Drama Desk and Outer Critcs Circle Awards)
Still Life (6 Obie Awards including playwriting, direction and production of the season) most recently produced by Retro Productions ^[1] in NYC at the 78th Street Lab, directed by Ric Sechrest during February of 2007, for which star Heather E. Cunningham, as Cheryl, was chosen as Marc Miller's "Performance to Remember, 2007" for Backstage East.
Annulla, An Autobiography.
Wrote and directed Having Our Say, adapted from the book by Sarah L. Delany and A. Elizabeth Delany with Amy Hill Hearth at McCarter and on Broadway (3 Tony nominations including Best Play and Best Direction, and a Drama Desk nomination; a Joseph Jefferson award, an NAACP award, and for the screenplay Peabody and Christopher Awards).
Mrs. Packard will have its world premiere at McCarter Theatre in May 2007 before transferring to The Kennedy Center in June.