Emma’s writing is informed her love of comedy, clown, poetry, and personal essays. Emma wrote her first solo show, This is What You Have to Look Forward To, influenced by her experience performing stand-up at open mics in New York City. Most recently, she wrote and performed whatever happened to the girls?, a solo show (with songs) based on her journal entries and improvisation. Writers she looks up to include Virginia Woolf, Toni Morrison, Anton Chekhov, and Mel Brooks.
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whatever happened to the girls?
40 mins, 1f
We’re standing on the corner and you’re laughing at everything I say. You’re literally doubling over. I’m amazed, watching you, because how can you laugh at everything I say but not want to love me, especially when what I’m saying isn’t even particularly funny? This play is about that, that day standing on the corner in the sun, watching you laugh. Or maybe the play is about spending your life wanting to be a different person and then running out of people that you might want to be. Or maybe it’s about training a dog. You’ll see.
THIS IS WHAT YOU HAVE TO LOOK FORWARD TO
50 mins, 1f
Rachel waits for the bartender to make eye contact with her, waits for her next tequila soda, or her next Modelo, whatever it is this time, and she waits for the guy who talked to her earlier, the guy with the Nick Drake t-shirt, to maybe come up and talk to her again, because she was reading that right, wasn’t she? They were flirting? Rachel waits as her life is falling apart. She doesn’t know how she’s losing it all so quickly - she’s losing everything because she can’t hold onto it, her life is like trying to hold water in her hands - totally impossible.
She goes back to her childhood home, for a visit. She goes back home and she waits for her visit to be over. And then something changes.