Emily Cicchini

Emily Cicchini has worked on and/or offstage with Austin Script Works, BoarsHead: Michigan Public Theatre, Capitol City Playhouse, the Cleveland Play House, Frontera @ Hyde Park Theatre, Live Oak Theatre, the Michigan and Texas Young Playwright's Festivals, Salvage Vanguard Theatre, Turner House Shakespeare Festival, the University of Texas Performing Arts Center, and Zachary Scott Theatre Center. Her play, Mays & Terese, about a fictional meeting of Madalyn Murray O'Hair and Mother Teresa, was developed through the New Harmony Project and produced by Bloomington Playwright's Project. Much of her writing focuses on strong women from the past, most notably Becoming Bront‘, about the early lives of literature's most famous three sisters. It was selected for the National Play Networks' Hothouse at Kitchen Dog Theatre, Richard and Betty Burdick National PlaywrightÕs Festival at Florida Studio Theatre and won the Austin Critics' Table Award for Best Original New Script. She is playwright-in-residence at the Pollyanna Theatre Company and has written numerous plays for director Judy Matetzschk, including Rumpelstiltskin's Daughter, adapted from the picture book by Diane Stanley, and Edward, the Owl, and the Calico Cat, inspired by the life and work of Edward Lear, published by Dramatic Publishing. A Dragon's Happy Day, about a dragon with Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder, is being optioned for an animated feature film. Cicchini teaches through VSA arts of Texas, holds an MFA from the University of Texas where she was a James A. Michener Fellow, and a BFA in acting from DePaul/Goodman School of Drama.