2020–2021 SEASON
LIVE Online transmedia productions
How We Built This
...together
Since our work in the 2020–2021 season was shared digitally through the internet, let’s take a moment to consider the legacies of colonization embedded within the technologies, structures, and ways of thinking we use every day. We are using equipment and high-speed internet, not available in many rural and Indigenous communities. Even the technologies that are central to us right now, leave significant carbon footprints, contributing to changing climates that disproportionately affect Indigenous peoples worldwide.
This land acknowledgment builds on the work of SpiderWebShow and FOLDA (Festival of Live Digital Art).
2020–2021 PRODUCTIONS
At A Glance
Jaclyn Backhaus's
MEN ON BOATS
Co-Directed by
Maureen Shea & Sarah Hickler
SEPTEMBER 25–27, 2020
Bertolt Brecht's
THE RESISTABLE RISE OF ARTURO UI
Directed by Timothy Douglas
OCTOBER 15–18, 2020
Annual TYA Production
CORDUROY
Adapted for the stage by Barry Kornhauser
Directed by Melia Bensussen
Movement direction by Nathaniel Justiniano
OCTOBER 29–NOVEMBER 1, 2020
ABOUT EMERSON STAGE
Emerson Stage is the producing organization within the Emerson College Department of Performing Arts. Here, the next generation of actors, designers, stage managers, technicians, administrators, and educators work alongside distinguished faculty, professional staff, and guest artists to bring skills learned in the classroom to vibrant life on stage.
In the 2020–2021 academic year we brought our work to a new stage—
livestreamed safely and distantly straight to you!
Thank you for joining us as we embraced
a new world of transmedia performance.