Emma Watkins '18
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Emma Watkins '18
Actor, Arts Administrator, Arts Educator, Composer, Lyricist, Musician, Playwright, Singer, Songwriter, Writer
Me in 50 words or less:
Emma Watkins is a playwright, dramaturg, and performer living in Philadelphia. Her plays are inclusive, imaginative, and fundamentally feminist. She strives to give female voices the opportunity to embellish and interrogate the stories of their lives. Quite often, they sing, too. Emma has presented her plays and research in the US and in Wales, in collaboration with such organizations as McCarter Theatre Lab, PlayPenn, Chapter Arts Centre (UK), and the US-UK Fulbright Forum.
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Department: English
Certificate(s): Environmental Studies, Music Theater, Theater
Student Group(s): Glee Club, Princeton University Players, Theatre Intime
Bio
Emma Watkins is a playwright, dramaturg, and performer. With the support of a Fulbright Award, she spent a year in Wales, studying performance adaptations of Welsh myths and folklore. Her research culminated with the creation of a new play, UNBECOMING, which has been developed in collaborations with PlayPenn, Princeton University, and Cardiff University (UK). It will receive its first full production with Princeton University’s Lewis Center for the Arts in 2020. Her plays have also been shared at McCarter Theatre Lab’s In the Writer’s Voice, Chapter Arts Centre (UK), and Princeton’s Theatre Intime. She was recently nominated for the National Theatre Conference’s Barry and Bernice Stavis Playwriting Award.
As a dramaturg and literary assistant, Emma has assisted on productions of GLORIA: A LIFE, MARY SHELLEY'S FRANKENSTEIN, SLEUTH, and the world premiere of Rachel Bond’s GOODNIGHT NOBODY (McCarter Theatre Center) as well as INTO THE WOODS (dir. Ethan Heard, Lewis Center for the Arts). Emma has presented her plays and research in the US and the UK. She recently co-authored a chapter on feminist musical theatre pedagogy with Professor Stacy Wolf, published by Routledge in Teaching Critical Performance Theory (Routledge.) Emma graduated magna cum laude from Princeton University, where her play TRAILING RHIANNON was awarded Princeton English Department’s Alan S. Downer Thesis Prize, Princeton Lewis Center for the Arts’ Music Theatre Prize, and Princeton Environmental Institute’s Environmental Humanities Book Prize. She received her Master’s in Welsh & Celtic Studies with Distinction from Cardiff University, where her play UNBECOMING was honored with the Sioned Davies Award. emmacwatkins.com
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