Emel Ertugrul is the Producing Artistic Director of Core Theatre Ensemble, an independent innovative theater company based out of Hampton Roads, Virginia. An alumni of Old Dominion University and North Carolina State University where she studied theater and marketing, Emel has been the guiding force behind Core since the ensemble’s formation in 2006, not only as producer but also as performer, director, writer, and teacher. As producer she has overseen every production from casting to performance, as well as the organization of all performance and teaching tours to Canada, Lithuania, Belgium, Spain and NYC. Theatrical collaborations include Centro di Creazione Teatrale, A. Pulka Physical Theater, Virginia Stage Company, Old Dominion University, Chrysler Museum Glass Studio, and Alchemy NFK.
March 19, 2021
Virginia Stage Company's Public Works VA and ODU Rep Theatre present Do You Know Me? a streaming exploration of outsiderness. Actors share personal stories and poetry with the support of co-directors Patrick Mullins and Priya Vashist.
March 5, 2021
Zeiders American Dream Theater (The Z) in Town Center under the lead ership of Artistic Director Bart Kuebler and Executive Director Terry Flint, is pleased to present the return of No Holds Bard: Shakespeare Remade.
December 23, 2020
Not A Christmas Carol you expect, but A Christmas Carol you need. Virginia Stage Company reduces in size but packs a joyous punch to your Christmas Spirit. A cast of 5 presents a retelling of the Dickens classic for our times.
January 30, 2018
We long for other worlds. For all our individual reasons, which are varied and true, we long to experience the elsewhere. Be it movies, books, tv, theatre, dance, or museums, we welcomingly fall into other places. These places can provide opposition or solidarity, but always stir empathy within. They may be wholly different or strikingly similar to our own worlds but we are never alone in these places to which we have escaped. We become invested in characters and viscerally respond to their triumphs and failures. By the very essence of the human psyche, we see ourselves in these stories regardless of place or status and Virginia Stage Company's recent production of Jane Austen's PRIDE AND PREJUDICE is proof of that.
April 23, 2017
How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, at the Sandler Center for the Performing Arts, through April 23.
November 14, 2016
Music driven and socially poignant, this new adaptation of Oliver Twist is melancholy and dreamlike.
April 22, 2016
BWW Previews: NICE WORK IF YOU CAN GET IT is gettin' it at Virginia Musical Theatre
March 14, 2016
In cold, gray, industrial abstraction The Pilot describes in euphoric detail what it means to be surrounded in blue. We are never given the blue she sees. What we do get is a precisely projected wash of fluid blue light swirling on the large steely walls that line the perimeter of her world and we can only dream of that kind of blue she describes
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