Emma Goldman-Sherman
Award-winning playwright Emma Goldman-Sherman creates timeless yet relevant, feminist work that provokes/engages on multiple levels to acknowledge/heal what our culture denies and/or refuses to address. Her work has been produced at Dixon Place, New Ohio, WP Theatre, Manhattan Theatre Source, Golden Thread, EST-LA, Canal Cafe Theatre, and others.
Upcoming work includes a staged reading of TAMAR (THE TWO-GATED CITY) on March 15th at Marble Collegiate Church, 7pm; an excerpt will also be seen on Tuesday, March 20th, in the Untold Stories Of Jewish Women at The Museum of Jewish Heritage.
MAN & WIFE will be presented as an in-house developmental event directed by David Kronick at New Circle Theatre Company, Thursday - Saturday March 8-10th at 7pm and Friday - Sunday March 9-11th at 3pm.
FUKT @ women telling will have a staged reading directed at The Bernie Wohl Center,
produced by W.H.A.M. at 7:30 pm on Monday March 26th.
Goldman-Sherman was awarded a Jane Chambers Award for PERFECT WOMEN and was produced by All Out Arts, Inc. and in Washington by Theatre Conspiracy. She is a 3-time finalist w/Cutting Ball's Risk is This Festival for WHY BIRDS FLY, ABRAHAM'S DAUGHTERS; and WHORTICULTURE recently short-listed with Owl & Cat in Melbourne. MFA, University of Iowa. Emma is the Resident Dramaturg at 29th Street Playwrights Collective where she runs the Write Now Workshop. Member: Dramatists Guild.
Upcoming work includes a staged reading of TAMAR (THE TWO-GATED CITY) on March 15th at Marble Collegiate Church, 7pm; an excerpt will also be seen on Tuesday, March 20th, in the Untold Stories Of Jewish Women at The Museum of Jewish Heritage.
MAN & WIFE will be presented as an in-house developmental event directed by David Kronick at New Circle Theatre Company, Thursday - Saturday March 8-10th at 7pm and Friday - Sunday March 9-11th at 3pm.
FUKT @ women telling will have a staged reading directed at The Bernie Wohl Center,
produced by W.H.A.M. at 7:30 pm on Monday March 26th.
Goldman-Sherman was awarded a Jane Chambers Award for PERFECT WOMEN and was produced by All Out Arts, Inc. and in Washington by Theatre Conspiracy. She is a 3-time finalist w/Cutting Ball's Risk is This Festival for WHY BIRDS FLY, ABRAHAM'S DAUGHTERS; and WHORTICULTURE recently short-listed with Owl & Cat in Melbourne. MFA, University of Iowa. Emma is the Resident Dramaturg at 29th Street Playwrights Collective where she runs the Write Now Workshop. Member: Dramatists Guild.
WHORTICULTURE - One Night Only Works in Progress at Dixon Place
Twinkle Burke, as Bella, and Sarah Kiefer, as Indie. Photo by Emily Hewitt
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Teresa Hui as Lark. Photo by Emily Hewitt.
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Twinkle Burke and Sarah Kiefer. Photo by Emily Hewitt.
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WHORTICULTURE, a confrontational tragicomedy, written by Emma Goldman-Sherman transfers to Dixon Place for a one night only event at Dixon Place, Friday October 20 at 7:30 pm. Developed with the 29th Street Playwrights Collective, WHORTICULTURE was presented as a staged reading in their New Works Series this past June. Using a non-traditional structure, WHORTICULTURE explores the darker roots of the way girls grow up in America challenging our social media, pop music, racist, rape culture. Cynthia Granville, Artistic Director of The Supporting Characters theatre company, will direct.
Sarah Kiefer, Twinkle Burke and Teresa Hui reprise their roles as Indigo, Belladonna and Larkspur, three girls who, after discovering they are named for poisonous flowers, form a club. Explicit content.
EXERPT FROM BROADWAYWORLD.com "Industry Insider Report" Oct 3, 2017
Sarah Kiefer, Twinkle Burke and Teresa Hui reprise their roles as Indigo, Belladonna and Larkspur, three girls who, after discovering they are named for poisonous flowers, form a club. Explicit content.
EXERPT FROM BROADWAYWORLD.com "Industry Insider Report" Oct 3, 2017
