First Floor Emily Zemba
Emily zemba playwright is a brooklyn based playwright.
First floor emily zemba. Except when it s dear and then still it looks like it might be dead. Playwrights emily zemba jiehae park first floor theater has announced its 2016 17 season which features comedies from three women playwrights and is set to take place at the den theatre where. Deer and the lovers 2016 world premiere first floor theater in chicago. The deer in emily zemba s title is dead from the start.
First floor theater is excited to announce the cast of the first play of their fifth season the deer and the lovers a rollicking and revelatory world premiere from emily zemba directed by. Sadly this is the case with first floor theater s world premiere of emily zemba s deer and the lovers what tries to be a wacky portrayal of love with a healthy dose of blood is instead a poorly acted mess albeit a poorly acted mess with one standout performance and an. Clockwork local lab boulder 2018. Shadee vossoughi and alex stage in first floor theater s deer and the lovers by emily zemba directed by jesse roth.
Emily has worked with mcc theater youth company s playwrights lab for the past six years. Her work has been seen and developed with local theater in boulder laguardia pac the adam mickiewicz institute in poland exquisite corpse company williamstown theater festival s professional training company first floor theater chicago. It s a strange balance of comedy and satire that often falls flat. Have you been there.
Zemba s deer and the lovers is a bold new farce about being lost in love lost in the woods and forging a new path when life. Rattlestick playwrights theater the playwrights center in minneapolis great plains. Emily zemba is a brooklyn based playwright screenwriter and creative producer. Semifinalist detroit new works festival 2018.
Emily zemba is a new york based playwright. She is a producing artistic director of middle voice at rattlestick and co founder of the party line. Zemba s mildly metaphysical ne. Come back richard simmons ars nova ant fest 2017.
A play written by emily zemba who graduated from lyme old lyme high school in 2006 opened saturday in its world premiere at chicago s den theatre where first floor theater is the resident theater company. Review by lauren whalen. Her play deer and the lovers received its world premiere at first floor theater in chicago.