Emily Caffery

Originally from the hilltowns of Massachusetts (Abenaki homeland), Emily Caffery is a theater producer, actor, and administrator currently living in Brooklyn (Lenapehoking). She is the artistic producer of The Assembly, developing new work including IN CORPO (upcoming at Theatre Row), SEAGULLMACHINE (La MaMa), HOME/SICK (JACK), and I WILL LOOK FORWARD TO THIS LATER (The New Ohio). She is currently collaborating with the Byzantine Choral Project, producing their musical audio drama ICONS/IDOLS: IRENE (available on all podcast apps) and the immersive sound installation ICONS/IDOLS: IN THE PURPLE ROOM (New Ohio Theatre/IRT Archive Residency Premiere). Other producing/management: Public Theater’s Under the Radar Festival; HERE Arts Center and Beth Morrison Projects’ PROTOTYPE Festival; Colt Coeur’s NY Times Critic’s Pick EUREKA DAY; and Hypokrit Theatre’s ELEMENTS OF CHANGE, a Climate Week NYC collaboration with UNICEF, Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, and GreenPoint Innovations. NY acting includes: Seagullmachine (La MaMa), King Lear (Brick), The Tempest, Marat/Sade (Columbia), Animal Wisdom choir (Bushwick Starr). Select regional: Elektra (as Elektra), The Glass Menagerie, Steel Magnolias, all in SE Michigan. Alumna: Wesleyan University, National Theater Institute.