Riverstage Community Theatre’s 2024-2025 season features Into the Woods, which is the final show of the season performing from June 6th 2025 to June 15th 2025.
Emily is serving as the Director.
About the Musical: The Brothers Grimm storybook characters come together in the epic fairy tale musical about wishes, family, and the choices we make.
Theatre4thePeople is a non-profit company run by a Co-Op of artists. They are dedicated to nurturing and supporting a diverse range of emerging artists and making sure theatre is accessible to all.
"Once a month Theatre4the People pays an artist to come out to Deckel Farm in Holmes, New York for one week.
@theBarn artists stay in a donated living space and receive a small stipend for food and travel. They can create, recharge, collaborate, rest, or revise. Whatever they need. We don’t charge, we don’t demand a product and we don’t restrict." (Theatre4thePeople's website.)
Emily is an Artist in Residence with Theatre4thePeople at theBarn for the 2025 season. They will be onsite in residence from June 18th to 24th.
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.
Shaffer is the Playwright. To read more of their plays, please visit their NewPlayExchange page by clicking the button below.
PREVIOUS DEVELOPMENT:
From March 30th to April 5th of 2025, Earth, I Want to Stay went through a New Play Development Workshop as a Student Driven Project, part of the Bloomsburg University Players' Mainstage Season. There were student actors, designers, a dramaturg, and stage management in collaboration.
Colin Search was the Director.
There was a sharing of the play on April 5th in the Theatre Lab of the Arts and Administration building on CU-Bloomsburg's campus.
UPCOMING DEVELOPMENT:
As part of Shaffer's residency with Theatre4thePeople @theBarn, they will be developing Earth, I Want to Stay. For the duration of their time, Shaffer will be utilizing what they've learned in their previous New Play Development process of the play to write revisions and deeper mine some details.
Emily M. Shaffer
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