Emily is a published and award-winning playwright with an interest in historical, literary, and imaginative subjects. Her plays Edward, the Owl, and the Calico Cat and Like a Metaphor are published by Dramatic and YouthPlays, respectively. Her play Becoming Brontë won several local and national awards. She edited the Mother/Daughter Monologues for the International Centre for Women Playwrights (ICWP) Press, and appears in Scenes from a Diverse World. The Pollyanna Theatre Company, where she is playwright in residence, has commissioned and produced over a dozen plays for youth audiences, including A Christmas Rose, A Dragon’s Happy Day, Just Bee, and the Pattern Nation series. She taught creative writing, acting, directing, voice, movement, and arts integration from pre-school to post...
Emily is a published and award-winning playwright with an interest in historical, literary, and imaginative subjects. Her plays Edward, the Owl, and the Calico Cat and Like a Metaphor are published by Dramatic and YouthPlays, respectively. Her play Becoming Brontë won several local and national awards. She edited the Mother/Daughter Monologues for the International Centre for Women Playwrights (ICWP) Press, and appears in Scenes from a Diverse World. The Pollyanna Theatre Company, where she is playwright in residence, has commissioned and produced over a dozen plays for youth audiences, including A Christmas Rose, A Dragon’s Happy Day, Just Bee, and the Pattern Nation series. She taught creative writing, acting, directing, voice, movement, and arts integration from pre-school to post-graduate levels in both formal and community based settings across the country. She was a radio commentator on Public Radio International’s “Primary Sources" and a two-time Nicholl Fellowship in Screenwriting finalist. She holds a MFA from the University of Texas at Austin where she was a Michener Fellow, and a BFA in Acting from Goodman School of Drama in Chicago. She also holds a PhD in organizational communication and technology from Moody College of Communication and serves as executive director for BookSpring in Austin, Texas.