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Emily McClain
Author

Emily McClain (Author) Emily McClain is a theatre educator and playwright. She is a proud member of the Dramatists Guild, Working Title Playwrights, New Play Exchange, and WriteStuffATL. Additionally, Emily is an associate artist with the some bodies theatre collective, a group dedicated to new play development in Atlanta. She is one of the theatre faculty at the new School of the Arts @ Central Gwinnett. Her play, Slaying Holofernes, was co-winner of the 2019 Essential Theatre Playwriting Award. She is a two-time finalist for the Risk Theatre Tragedy competition with her plays Children of Combs and Watch Chains (2020) and The Rock & The Hard Place (2021). She was a recipient of a Stripped Bare grant in 2021 for her play What the Water Gave Me, which went on to receive the William Faulkner Literary Prize in 2022. She was the 2022 winner of the Texas Nonprofit Theatre New Play award for her play Copper Angel, which received a world premiere production with Bourne Community Theatre in 2023. Her short plays have been staged at many professional theaters across the country with highlights including Snowdance Comedy Festival 2021 (Tooth Or Dare – 3rd Place Overall), Theatre Oxford (Secret Family Recipes – Festival Winner and Audience Choice), Raze The Space (The Un-Help Desk – Audience Choice), and Eden Prairie Players (Ashes to Ashes – Audience Choice). She is published through ArtAge and Next Stage Press. More of her work may be found on New Play Exchange: Emily McClain | New Play Exchange  

Emily McClain
Author

Emily McClain (Author) Emily McClain is a theatre educator and playwright. She is a proud member of the Dramatists Guild, Working Title Playwrights, New Play Exchange, and WriteStuffATL. Additionally, Emily is an associate artist with the some bodies theatre collective, a group dedicated to new play development in Atlanta. She is one of the theatre faculty at the new School of the Arts @ Central Gwinnett. Her play, Slaying Holofernes, was co-winner of the 2019 Essential Theatre Playwriting Award. She is a two-time finalist for the Risk Theatre Tragedy competition with her plays Children of Combs and Watch Chains (2020) and The Rock & The Hard Place (2021). She was a recipient of a Stripped Bare grant in 2021 for her play What the Water Gave Me, which went on to receive the William Faulkner Literary Prize in 2022. She was the 2022 winner of the Texas Nonprofit Theatre New Play award for her play Copper Angel, which received a world premiere production with Bourne Community Theatre in 2023. Her short plays have been staged at many professional theaters across the country with highlights including Snowdance Comedy Festival 2021 (Tooth Or Dare – 3rd Place Overall), Theatre Oxford (Secret Family Recipes – Festival Winner and Audience Choice), Raze The Space (The Un-Help Desk – Audience Choice), and Eden Prairie Players (Ashes to Ashes – Audience Choice). She is published through ArtAge and Next Stage Press. More of her work may be found on New Play Exchange: Emily McClain | New Play Exchange