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BIOGRAPHY

Emily Mann

A.R.T.: Gloria: A Life. Emily Mann is a multi-award winning playwright and director in her thirtieth and final season as Artistic Director and Resident Playwright of McCarter Theatre Center in Princeton, NJ. Plays: Having Our Say, adapted from the book by Sarah L. Delany and A. Elizabeth Delany with Amy Hill Hearth; Execution of Justice; Still Life; Annulla, An Autobiography; Greensboro (A Requiem); Meshugah; Mrs. Packard; and Hoodwinked (a Primer on Radical Islamism). Adaptations: Baby Doll, Scenes from a Marriage, Uncle Vanya, The Cherry Orchard, A Seagull in the Hamptons, The House of Bernarda Alba, and Antigone. Currently in development: The Pianist. Gloria: A Life opened McCarter’s season this year after a successful run in New York at The Daryl Roth Theatre. Awards: Peabody, Hull Warriner, NAACP, seven Obies, Guggenheim; Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle nominations; a Princeton University Honorary Doctorate of Arts, a Helen Merrill Distinguished Playwrights’ Award, and the Margo Jones Award, given to a “citizen-of-the-theatre who has demonstrated a lifetime commitment to the encouragement of the living theatre everywhere.” This past June, she was awarded the TCG Visionary Leadership Award. In November 2019, Ms. Mann was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame.

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