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| A road turns into stairs, Athens, Greece, 2009 |
Libby Emmons plays include Zeropia (Clubbed Thumb Biennial Commission), The Girls from Afar (Desipina & Co., East West Players, Open Rehearsal at INTAR, finalist Yale Drama Series), The Little Room (finalist Eugene O'Neill Conference, BBC International Radio Play Competition), Connie in Detroit (blue box world & Bowery Poetry Club; TARTE Festival, NYC, 2011), leaving last night (EBE Ensemble, 2010), RU610 (Williamstown Theater Festival commission, 2007) Dirty & Leo in Tokyo (Sanctuary Playwrights Workshop, NYC), and I Am Not an Allegory (These Are People I Know) (blue box world at Bowery Poetry Club, 2012), among others. She has written at least a dozen full-length plays, and produced some of them under the auspices of her theater company blue box world.
Her work has been produced in New
York, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, Buffalo, Sacramento, Rosario Argentina,
Sheffield U.K., & New Zealand. Her short play “Animal/Animal” anticipates
2013 publication in Smith & Kraus’ Best
Short Plays of 2013, and "The Worm Turns at the Fort Peck Hotel"
was published by The New York Theater
Review. She is co-founder & curator of blue box world’s Sticky series,
which ran from 2004-2012 in NYC, the last 5 years in residence at Bowery Poetry
Club. She collaborated on Eschaton
Cabaret (Dixon Place); and with Polybe & Seats for The Charlotte Salomon Project (NYC and Ann Arbor, MI, 2007), A Thousand Thousand Slimy Things (NYC, 2010),
and Alice or The Scottish Gravediggers
(Brooklyn, 2011). She also collaborated with RAT Conference on the MacBeth
Project (Rosario, Argentina, 2003).
Libby has a BA from Sarah
Lawrence College, and an MFA from Columbia University, where she was awarded
the Liberace Scholarship, Shubert Scholarship, Miller Fellowship, Columbia
University School of Arts Theatre Merit Scholarship. She is a Wasserstein Prize
Nominee, John Golden Award winner, & Heideman Award finalist two years
running for shorts “Wanting It” and “Being Essential.”