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Emma Rosa Went is a freelance theatre director who makes heartfelt, collaborative productions of new and classic-text plays. She is currently the Drama League Classical Directing Fellow for 2020. In New York, Emma has developed and presented work with: The Drama League, Playwrights Realm, Trans Lab at WP, The Tank, The Brick, Dixon Place, Access Theatre, LPAC Lab, and many other venues. Outside New York includes: Scranton Shakespeare Festival (As You Like It, '18, Richard III, '19 and upcoming, Henry IV, '20;) Campfire Theatre Festival @ Boise Contemporary Theatre, Barn Arts Collective. Emma is a co-founder of The Renovationists with playwright Else C. Went, for whom she has directed Old Names for Wildflowers; Courage! To The Field! (Tim Bond Production Grant, Oregon Shakespeare Festival;) Three Seconds, Boxcar, and many developmental readings. Co-founder of Easy Leap Theatre Company, for whom she directed Much Ado About Nothing, The Changeling, Othello, Hearts of Gold: from Henry IV, and Love's Labors Lost. Emma has been the recipient of: Drama League First Stage Residency 2019 (Beckett Without Beckett;) Sokoloff Creative Arts Fellowship 2019/Residency 2020 at Town Stages; SDCF Observership 2017 (Measure for Measure, TFANA;) OSF FAIR Program 2015. Off-broadway and regional assisting includes: TFANA, Atlantic, Rattlestick, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Colorado Shakespeare Festival. Emma is an Associate Member of the SDC. BA Sarah Lawrence College.
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