Emily Boyd Dahab

Emily Boyd Dahab

Emily Boyd Dahab is an interdisciplinary theatre-artist with sixteen years of training in theatre studies. She is a faculty member at the Tom Todoroff Conservatory, where she teaches a year-long course on Western Theater History and Dramaturgy.

Emily received her MFA in Dramaturgy from Columbia School of the Arts, where she wrote her thesis on the process of building theaters to accommodate the...
Emily Boyd Dahab is an interdisciplinary theatre-artist with sixteen years of training in theatre studies. She is a faculty member at the Tom Todoroff Conservatory, where she teaches a year-long course on Western Theater History and Dramaturgy.

Emily received her MFA in Dramaturgy from Columbia School of the Arts, where she wrote her thesis on the process of building theaters to accommodate the unique needs of suburban communities. She has a prior MA in Medieval & Renaissance Studies from Columbia, and degrees in Classical Acting from The London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, and Theatre and Performance Studies from The University of Chicago. She studied Meisner Technique with Bill Esper for two years.

Her plays have been produced at Barrington Stage, Red Bull, and the Nuyorican Poet’s Café. Her verse play Swansong was published by Steele Spring Press. She has dramaturged productions at Columbia, The Brick Theater, The 13th Street Theater, and for The Classical Theatre of Harlem. Presently she is a dramaturg for The Momversations, a multi-media project of The National Women’s Theater Festival which includes a podcast and play devised from interviews with diverse moms around the country. She is a mom of two under three.

Plays

  • Ugly F*cks/Succubus
    A woman of a certain age, alone in her suburban home, removes her makeup and applies a face mask. While doing so, she spins a ghastly tale that may be true or false or somewhere in between.

    This piece tackles themes of aging, female beauty standards, and women's rage. It contains frank sexual language, graphic descriptions of violence, and full frontal nudity.
  • Swansong
    The Spartan queen, Leda, considers the subject of her famed union with Jove.

    This play is written in verse. It considers themes of trauma, female power and female rage. It contains description of the rape of the protagonist by a swan.
  • The Still Point of the Turning World
    1940, London: a librarian trapped during the worst of the Blitz considers the poetry of T.S. Eliot.

    This piece tackles themes of war, death, and the roads not taken. It contains a symbolic description of a person passing.
  • Visiting Dad
    A woman shares her complicated feelings about the unconventional way in which her science-minded father chose to be remembered.

    This play deals with themes of loss, love, and science. It contains a frank description of plastinated human remains.