About the Playwright

EMILY DAVIS is a founder and Artistic Director of Messenger Theatre Company in New York City. For Messenger, Emily has written and directed fig. a: The Heart, The Great God Money, Persephone, The Golden Apple: For the Fairest, “The Daughters of Memory,” “The Adventures of Baba Yaga: Little Girl Stew,” “The Enemy,”  "Waiting Room" and the “Puppet Rap” (which was filmed by NY1 and CNN as part of the Lysistrata Project.) She also curates and produces the company's Annual Festival of Myth.

As an assistant director, Emily worked with Helena Kaut-Howson on Yerma (at the Arcola Theatre in London,) Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass and with Mark Ravenhill on Nursery/School.

First Dreamcatcher reading of The Great God Money with full cast and playwright-director Emily Davis

Messenger Theatre Company brought Emily’s solo show, Mythellaneous to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2008 and the East to Edinburgh Festival at 59 E 59. She has worked as an actor with Shenandoah Shakespeare, Mill Mountain Theatre, Georgia Shakespeare Festival, Lime Kiln and BAMcinematek. As a singer/songwriter, Emily founded and played with Bright Red Boots, who released their debut CD in May 2001. She has been a two-time musical guest on talk show, Sara Schaeffer is Obsessed with You.

Emily has worked for BAM, New York Student Shakespeare Festival. City Lights Youth Theatre, American Globe Theatre, Roundabout, Theatre for a New Audience, Bronx Arts Ensemble, Arts Connection,  and Young Audiences/NY as a teaching artist.

Read more: Q&A with Emily Davis

Read more: History of “The Great God Money”

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