Emma Watkins '18

Emma Watkins '18

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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Rachel Lyon '05

Rachel Lyon '05

Rachel Lyon is the author of SELF PORTRAIT WITH BOY (Scribner 2018), which was a finalist for the Center for Fiction's 2018 First Novel Prize and the 2020 International Dublin Literary Award. Her short work has appeared in publications such as One Story, Longreads, and Electric Literature’s Recommended Reading. Rachel is the Editor-in-Chief of the literary journal Epiphany. She has taught creative writing at Catapult, the Sackett Street Writers Workshop, and elsewhere.

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Eric Lyon '84

Eric Lyon '84

Eric Lyon is a composer and computer music researcher. Lyon’s publicly available software includes FFTease and LyonPotpourri, collections of audio objects written for Max/MSP and Pd. He is the author of “Designing Audio Objects for Max/MSP and Pd” (A-R Editions, 2012), which explicates the process of designing and implementing audio DSP externals.

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