Emily Mann (director)

Emily Mann is the multi-award winning Artistic Director and Resident Playwright of McCarter Theatre in Princeton, New Jersey, where she has overseen over 85 productions.

A winner of the Dramatists Guild of America Hull-Warriner Award, Ms. Mann is a member of the Dramatists Guild and serves on its Council. In 2002 she received an Honorary Doctorate of Arts from Princeton University.

Works

Directing

Some of her thirty McCarter directing credits include:
*The world premiere of "Miss Witherspoon" by Christopher Durang (also Off-Broadway at Playwrights Horizons),
*The world premiere of "The Bells" by Theresa Rebeck,
*The world premiere of "Last of the Boys" by Steven Dietz
*Nilo Cruz's "Anna in the Tropics" at McCarter and on Broadway with Jimmy Smits (2003 Pulitzer Prize, two Tony nominations)
*Anton Chekhov's "Uncle Vanya" (also adapted) with Amanda Plummer
*Edward Albee's "All Over" with Rosemary Harris and Michael Learned and at Roundabout Theater Company (Obie Awards for her direction and for Rosemary Harris's performance)
*"The Tempest" with Blair Brown, "Romeo and Juliet" with Sarah Drew and Jeffrey Carlson
* "The Cherry Orchard" (also adapted) with Jane Alexander and Avery Brooks
* I.B. Singer's "Meshugah" (adaptor and director) with Elizabeth Marvel
*The American premiere of "The Mai" by Marina Carr
*The world premiere of Anna Deveare Smith's "", (also at the Mark Taper Forum)
*Federico García Lorca's "The House of Bernarda Alba" (also adapted) with Helen Carey
*The world premiere of Joyce Carol Oates' "The Perfectionist"
*August Strindberg's "Miss Julie" (also adapted) with Kim Cattrall, Donna Murphy and Peter Francis James
*"Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" with Pat Hingle and JoBeth Williams
*Chekhov's "Three Sisters" with Frances McDormand, Linda Hunt, and Mary Stuart Masterson
* "Betsey Brown" (co-author with Baikida Carroll and Ntozake Shange)
*"The Glass Menagerie" with Shirley Knight, Dylan McDermott and Judy Kuhn.

Writing

*Author of "Greensboro (A Requiem)"
*Author and director of "Execution of Justice" at The Guthrie Theatre and on Broadway (winner of the HBO New Plays USA award, the Helen Hayes Award, the Bay Area Critics Circle Award, and nominated for a Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Award)
*"Still Life" (6 Obie Awards including playwriting, direction and production of the season) most recently produced by Retro Productions [ [http://retroproductions.org/retroproductions.htm http://retroproductions.org/retroproductions.htm] "Retroproductions.org" ] in NYC at the 78th Street Lab, directed by Ric Sechrest during February 2007, for which star Heather E. Cunningham, as Cheryl, was chosen as Marc Miller's "Performance to Remember, 2007" for Backstage East.
*"Annulla, An Autobiography".
*Wrote and directed "", adapted from the book by Sarah L. Delany and A. Elizabeth Delany with Amy Hill Hearth at McCarter and on Broadway (3 Tony nominations including Best Play and Best Direction, and a Drama Desk nomination; a Joseph Jefferson award, an NAACP award, and for the screenplay Peabody and Christopher Awards).
*"Mrs. Packard" will have its world premiere at McCarter Theatre in May 2007 before transferring to The Kennedy Center in June.

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