Emily Mann (director)
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Born | Emily Betsy Mann April 12, 1952 Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. |
Education | Harvard University (BA) University of Minnesota (MFA) |
Occupation(s) | Theatre director Playwright Screenwriter |
Years active | 1976–present |
Spouse | Gerry Bamman (divorced) |
Children | 1 |
Emily Betsy Mann (born April 12, 1952) is an American director, playwright and screenwriter.[1] She served as the artistic director and resident playwright of the McCarter Theatre Center from 1990 to 2020.[2]
Career
As the McCarter Theatre Center's Artistic Director and Resident Playwright from 1990 to 2020, Mann oversaw more than 160 productions, including more than 40 world premieres. During her tenure, the theater won the
Her other personal awards include the
In January 2019, McCarter Theatre announced that Mann would retire from the position following the 2019–2020 season.[3]
Mann's nearly 50 McCarter directing credits include productions by
Her plays include:
Her new play, Gloria: A Life, about the legacy of Gloria Steinem played off-Broadway at the Daryl Roth Theatre from October 2018 through March 2019.[4]
She directed adaptations of Baby Doll, Scenes from a Marriage, Uncle Vanya, The Cherry Orchard, A Seagull in the Hamptons, The House of Bernarda Alba, Antigone. She is currently[when?] developing a new adaptation of The Pianist.
Mann grew up in Chicago, where her father taught history. She completed her BA in English literature at Harvard University (Radcliffe College) in 1974 and her MFA in Directing from the University of Minnesota in 1976.
Mann was married to the actor Gerry Bamman, with whom she shares a son, Nicholas.[5] She is now married to Gary Mailman, an attorney. Mann and Mailman live in Princeton, New Jersey. She was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 1994.[6]
A biography of Mann, "Emily Mann:Rebel Artist of the American Theater," by Alexis Greene was published in November 2021 by Applause Theatre & Cinema Books of Rowman & Littlefield.[7]
Works
Directing
Some of her McCarter directing credits include:
- The world premiere of Miss Witherspoon by Christopher Durang (also Off-Broadway at Playwrights Horizons)
- The world premiere of The Bells by Theresa Rebeck
- The world premiere of Last of the Boys by Steven Dietz
- Tonynominations)
- Anton Chekhov's Uncle Vanya (also adapted) with Amanda Plummer
- Roundabout Theater Company (Obie Awardsfor her direction and for Rosemary Harris's performance)
- The Tempest with Blair Brown, Romeo and Juliet with Sarah Drew and Jeffrey Carlson
- The Cherry Orchard (also adapted) with Jane Alexander and Avery Brooks
- I.B. Singer's Meshugah (adaptor and director) with Elizabeth Marvel
- The American premiere of The Mai by Marina Carr
- The world premiere of Anna Deavere Smith's Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992 (also at the Mark Taper Forum)
- Federico García Lorca's The House of Bernarda Alba (also adapted) with Helen Carey
- The world premiere of Joyce Carol Oates' The Perfectionist
- August Strindberg's Miss Julie (also adapted) with Kim Cattrall, Donna Murphy and Peter Francis James
- Cat on a Hot Tin Roof with Pat Hingle and JoBeth Williams
- Chekhov's Three Sisters with Frances McDormand, Linda Hunt, and Mary Stuart Masterson
- Betsey Brown (co-author with Baikida Carroll and Ntozake Shange)
- The Glass Menagerie with Shirley Knight, Dylan McDermott and Judy Kuhn
- The world premiere of Edward Albee's Me, Myself, and I (also at Playwrights Horizons) with Tyne Daly and Brian Murray
- The world premiere of Sarah Treem's The How and the Why with Mercedes Ruehl
- The world premiere of Phaedra Backwards by Marina Carr
- The world premiere of The Convert by Danai Gurira (also at the Joseph Jefferson Awardsincluding Best Production.)
- Edward Albee’s A Delicate Balance (play) featuring John Glover (actor), Kathleen Chalfant, and Mary Beth Hurt
- David Auburn’s Proof
- Antony and Cleopatra featuring Nicole Ari Parker and Esau Pritchett
- Rachel Bond's Five Mile Lake
- The Broadway revival of A Streetcar Named Desire with Blair Underwood, Wood Harris, Nicole Ari Parker, and Daphne Rubin-Vega
- Tennessee Williams' Baby Doll Mann co-adapted for the stage with Pierre Laville
- Nilo Cruz's Bathing in Moonlight
- The world premiere of Turning Off the Morning News by Christopher Durang
- Upcoming - David Hare (playwright)'s "Skylight (play)"
Writing
- Author of Greensboro (A Requiem)
- Author and director of Outer Critics Circle Award)
- Still Life (6 Obie Awards including playwriting, direction and production of the season) most recently produced by Retro Productions[8] in New York City at the 78th Street Lab, directed by Ric Sechrest during February 2007, for which star Heather E. Cunningham, as Cheryl, was chosen as Marc Miller's "Performance to Remember, 2007" for Backstage East
- Annulla, An Autobiography
- Wrote and directed Peabody, a Christopher Award and an NAACP awardnomination).
- Mrs. Packard had its world premiere at McCarter Theatre in May 2007 before transferring to Broadway Play Publishing Inc.
- Wrote and directed A Seagull in the Hamptons, adapted and modernized from Broadway Play Publishing Inc.
- Author of "Gloria: A Life" about the legacy of Gloria Steinem
- Currently in development: the stage adaptation of "The Pianist"
- Mann has also adapted versions of House of Bernarda Alba(recently staged in London)
- A collection of her plays, Testimonies: Four Plays, has been published by Theatre Communications Group
References
- ^ "Emily Mann Biography (1952-)". Film Reference. Retrieved August 24, 2019.
- ^ Collins-Hughes, Laura (May 3, 2020). "A Thousand Goodbyes for McCarter Theater's Emily Mann". The New York Times. Retrieved 12 January 2022.
- ^ Press Release McCarter Theatre. Accessed April 23, 2022.
- ^ Clement, Olivia (November 8, 2018). "Gloria: A Life Extends Off-Broadway Through March 2019 and has since performed regionally at several theaters". Playbill. Retrieved January 12, 2022.
- ISBN 978-1-4930-6033-7.
- ^ "Princeton's McCarter Theatre Center Expects To Surprise Its Audiences With Bold New Selections". New Jersey Monthly. February 13, 2012. Retrieved Jul 2, 2020.
- ISBN 9781493060320. Retrieved 12 January 2022.
- ^ http://retroproductions.org/retroproductions.htm Retroproductions.org Archived February 19, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "404 - McCarter Theatre". www.mccarter.org. Archived from the original on 2011-05-04. Retrieved 2010-04-16.
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Further reading
- Alexis Greene: Emily Mann : rebel artist of the American theater, Guilford, Connecticut : Applause, [2021], ISBN 978-1-4930-6032-0