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In 2023, a group of theater artists from around the world came together to prioritize dramaturgy in the theater-making process.
The Digital Development Project provides free dramaturgical support to playwrights. Through our initiatives and partnerships we are able to reinvigorate the role of the dramaturg in the American Theater.
The Match is how we get writers and dramaturgs in rooms together.
Playshare Evolution is the opportunity for those writers to have their words performed by actors and heard by audiences.
Our partners have including SheNYC (SheLA) Festival and the Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas.
My work as a Teaching Artist for the New Jersey Performing Arts Center was highlighted on their website, read more here.
Rounding out my time on the executive committee
Beginning in 2022, I served on the executive committee for the Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americasm (LMDA) as one of the co-vice presidents of Anti-Oppression. My first term, I ran the portfolio with Dr. Martine Kei Green-Rogers and Russell Dembin. In 2024, the Advocacy portfolio was folded into the role and Kodie Rollan of Canada’s Chromatica Theatre joined me in leading the portfolio. The continental and cross-border nature of the work was heavily informed by my own international and advocacy practice. Please visit LMDA’s website for more information about the conference and the organization.
CONNECTING DOT: THE MUSICAL
Ink & Paint Continues her journey…
After successful runs with SheLA and the Media Theater, Ink & Paint by Danielle Moore continues its life with Newport NewWorks with a Broadway cast. An industry-only reading was held at Roundabout Theatre Company on January 13, 2026. Find the SheLA program for the musical here.
PLAYWRIGHT TESTIMONIALS
Paige Goodwin: “Emma gave me devastatingly good feedback.”
Donna Latham: “In working with Emma, I felt supported, challenged, and totally free to experiment.”
Lynda Crawford: “She was very easy to talk with and immensely supportive of the play.”
HIRE ME TO READ YOUR PLAY
Want to give dramaturgy a test run? Submit a reading request on my Fiverr gig and we can work together, and you can see how the process works for yourself! Just send in your play and I will handle the rest.
Selected dramaturgical credits
Connecting Dot: A Kindred Revue book, music, and lyrics by Victoria Romano
Stuck in Honolulu by Lee Cataluna
Ink and Paint book, music, and lyrics by Danielle E. Moore, presented by SheLA Festival
Greta and the Empty Heart book, music, and lyrics by Lilla Woodbury, presented by the NY Foundation for the Arts
YELLA JACK by Donna Latham
Lilith by Paige Goodwin
The Secrets of Birds by Lynda Crawford
Long Pig Kitchen by Rebecca Kane (also directed)
Professional Affiliations
Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas | Executive Committee | Co-Vice President of Anti-Oppression (2022-2026)
Supplemental dramaturgies
A Response to John McWhorter’s New York Times Op-Ed — | Medium, 2024
Los Angeles Theater is Where Hollywood Goes to Feed Its Soul | Article for smArt Magazine by Lighthouse (defunct), 2023
F-O-R-M and Function | Article for smART Magazine by Lighthouse, 2023
Looking to the past as we look to the future: COVID lessons from the classics | Panel for Dramaturging the Phoenix, 2020.
Aeschylus Says Black Lives Matter | Essay for Dramaturging the Phoenix, 2020.
The ReTAGS Podcast | In association with the University of Cape Town, this documented the devising process for Antigone: not quite/quiet presented at the Baxter Theater in Cape Town, South Africa, 2019
Education
univeristiet van amsterdam,
Amsterdam, netherlands
MA Arts and Culture, International Dramaturgy
Graduated January 2020
Marymount manhattan College
New York, NY
BA Theatre Arts, Performance
Graduated June 2016