The Bloomsburg University Players' 2024-2025 season features Anti-Hero: Revenge of the Sw*fties as the Fall 2024 MainStage production.
Emily is serving as the Dramaturg.
About the Play: Fourteen-year-old Cora harasses a prominent music critic and his family into changing his scathing review of a country-turned-pop star's most divisive record. When he ignores her demands, an entire fandom works to save their queen's reputation.
Bloomsburg Theatre Ensemble's 2023-2024 season features The Velveteen Rabbit, directed by Amy Rene Byrne.
Emily is serving as the Dramaturg and the Assistant Stage Manager.
About the Play: Featuring the talents of young artists from the Susquehanna Valley! Margery Williams' beloved children's book comes to life in this enchanting tale for young and old alike. Through the eyes of a young child, the Velveteen Rabbit discovers the true meaning of being loved and cherished.
The story follows a stuffed rabbit's journey to become real. With whimsical characters, imaginative storytelling, and a sprinkle of wonder, this timeless play reminds us all that real beauty lies within the depths of our hearts.
Gaspipe Theatre Company's 2024 Summer Shakespeare in the Park features Much Ado About Nothing, directed by Andrew Shaffer.
Emily is performing as Verges.
Gaspipe Theatre Company is a company based in Lewisburg Pennsylvania, and they do a Summer Shakespeare in the Park production each year at Huffnagle Park in Lewisburg. This year's performance of Much Ado About Nothing performs August 9th, 10th, & 11th.
About the Play: Count Claudio falls in love with Hero, the daughter of his host. Hero's cousin Beatrice (a confirmed spinster) and Benedict (an eternal bachelor) are each duped into believing the other is in love with them. Claudio is deceived by a malicious plot and denounces Hero as unchaste before they marry. She faints and is believed dead, but recovers to be proved innocent by a chance discovery. Benedict wins Beatrice’s love defending her cousin’s honour, and to his surprise, Claudio is reunited with Hero, who he believed dead
Reclaimed Performing Arts Company's 2024 Extreme One Day Shakespeare features Romeo and Juliet, directed by Carter Reichard. Emily is performing as both Apothecary and Citizen.
Reclaimed Performing Arts Company's Extreme One Day Shakespeare event is an annual event in which actors and the director meet briefly over Zoom for small rehearsals, and perform on one day.
This year's performance of Romeo and Juliet takes place October 6th.
About the Play: An age-old vendetta between two powerful families erupts into bloodshed. A group of masked Montagues risk further conflict by gatecrashing a Capulet party. A young lovesick Romeo Montague falls instantly in love with Juliet Capulet, who is due to marry her father’s choice, the County Paris. With the help of Juliet’s nurse, the women arrange for the couple to marry the next day, but Romeo’s attempt to halt a street fight leads to the death of Juliet’s own cousin, Tybalt, for which Romeo is banished. In a desperate attempt to be reunited with Romeo, Juliet follows the Friar’s plot and fakes her own death. The message fails to reach Romeo, and believing Juliet dead, he takes his life in her tomb. Juliet wakes to find Romeo’s corpse beside her and kills herself. The grieving family agree to end their feud.
About the Play: In conversation about if plants could actually shoot things like the ones in Plants VS Zombies, Sam mentions having a panic room. All but one are confused by this. Toby is insanely intrigued. Eventually they go down to check it out, only it isn't what anyone expected... The door locks from the outside. Already weirded out by Toby's... interests, the three teens begin to spiral.
Shaffer is the Playwright. To read more of their plays, please visit their NewPlayExchange page by clicking the button below.
About the Play: Crashing on Earth mid flight test for the Vline Space Invader Institute, Zarp is immersed in an environment they never imagined being in. Zarp is forced to open a memory they put away a long time ago in hopes of getting home: the death of their parents.
Was Zarp's crash to this planet a fluke? Or was it some outside force trying to revisit the past?
Shaffer is the Playwright. To read more of their plays, please visit their NewPlayExchange page by clicking the button below.
About the Play: In a near future, an illness plagues the planet, infecting the world population and polluting the air. Ellis and Finley are the last two people on Earth quarantined in their apartment in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. Unfortunately resources have drastically gone low, and A Voice lets Ellis know the two of them don't have much time left until an aggressive storm comes to wipe them out.
Shaffer is the Playwright. To read more of their plays, please visit their NewPlayExchange page by clicking the button below.
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