Emma Rosa Went is a Brooklyn-based theatre director who makes new and classic-text plays. In New York, Emma has developed and presented work at many venues, including: The Public Theater (Initiative;) Manhattan Theatre Club (An Oxford Man;) Ars Nova (Degenerates;) Red Bull/TFANA (Kit Marlowe;) NYTW, Bedlam (Coach Coach;) Playwrights Realm, The Tank, & The Brick. Regionally, she has directed for Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival (Romeo and Juliet, Spring Tour ‘23;) Opera House Arts (Much Ado About Nothing;) Connecticut Shakespeare Festival (A Midsummer Night’s Dream, 2021 Regional Broadway World Award for Best Direction of a Play;) Weston Theater Company, Scranton Shakespeare Festival, and more. Emma is currently under commission with HVSF working on The Two Noble Kinsmen, and has been in residence with Public Shakespeare Initiative, Drama League, Mercury Store, & Barn Arts Collective. Drama League Classical Directing Fellow ‘20, SDCF Barbara Whitman Award Finalist ‘23. Emma has been a teaching artist or guest-lecturer at: Brooklyn College, The Freeman Studio NYC, University of Colorado at Boulder, & Scranton Preparatory School. Assistant directing includes TFANA, OSF, Red Bull, Colorado Shakespeare, Atlantic, Rattlestick, & more. Emma also co-hosts the podcast 'this shakespeare is gay,' available wherever you find podcasts. SDC Associate Member, BA Sarah Lawrence College.
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