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
THIS GOLDEN DAY
A virtual musical
Conceived and created by
Annie G. Levy & Devanand Janki
Directed by Devanand Janki
NOVEMBER 19–22, 2020
José Rivera's
MARISOL
Directed by Tatyana-Marie Carlo
FEBRUARY 18–21, 2021
Branden Jacob-Jenkins's
EVERYBODY
Directed by Annie G. Levy
MARCH 11–14, 2021
NewFest: Play Workshop
INTERIOR OF THE ARTIST WITHOUT HER SISTER
A theatre piece written by
Masha Obolensky
Directed by Melia Bensussen
MARCH 25–28, 2021
Sabrina Sexauer's
GOING TO CALIFORNIA
2021 NewFest Rod Parker Playwriting Award Winner Production
Directed by Joseph Antoun
APRIL 1–4, 2021
SPRING AWAKENING
Book and Lyrics by Steven Sater
Music by Duncan Sheik
Based on the play by Frank Wedekind
APRIL 15–18, 2021
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.