Theater Director, Acting Instructor
MA, Theatre Education, Emerson College;
BA, Literature & Drama, Franciscan University, Steubenville, OH
Emily C. A. Snyder, an educator, director, author and playwright, has been involved in playmaking since she was old enough to make believe. Since 1998, she has been working both independently and within school and community theatre associations to create her unique brand of theatre that is intensely interested in the true craft of the stage and of the well-being of those who come together to produce a play.
Snyder holds an MA in Theatre Education from Emerson College, Boston, MA and a BA in Literature and Drama from Franciscan University of Steubenville, OH. She studied screenwriting in Hollywood, CA with the ActOne program, and studied verse drama with the Theatre-in-England/Shakespeare School in London and Stratford-upon-Avon, England, under the direction of Vivien Heilbron and Bernard Lloyd. In 2006, she founded Gaudete Academy, a summer Shakespeare program in Massachusetts for adolescents and young adults.
In the past decade, she has directed over 50 plays, musicals, operas, ballets, pageants and masques, with such diverse groups as the Framingham Community Theater, the Hudson High School, the Hudson-Marlborough Arts Alliance, Theater 906, and the Sudbury Savoyards. Many of her acting and voice students have gone on to have pursue the arts at conservatories across America, as well as being successful working artists locally, touring across the country, and in New York City. Snyder’s plays have been performed throughout the United States, and internationally—from Dublin, Ireland to Christchurch, New Zealand. Her original five-act iambic pentameter play, “Cupid and Psyche” debuted in Boston in 2009, and was a semi-finalist in the Princess Grace Awards that same year. Four of her 40+ original plays have been published through Playscripts, Inc.
More information can be found at her official website.