EDITH FRENI
Holds both her BFA and MFA from NYU’s Department of Dramatic Writing, where she was the recipient of a Goldberg Playwriting Fellowship and the Harry Kondoleon Graduate Playwriting Award. Her work has been produced, developed and read at numerous professional theatrical institutions including Steppenwolf Theatre Company, New York Theatre Workshop, LAByrinth Theatre Company, The Public Theatre, The Williamstown Theatre Festival, Ensemble Studio Theater, PS 122, Partial Comfort Productions, The McCarter Theatre and The Lark. She is the first ever recipient of an Emory University Playwriting Fellowship and will be in residence at Emory from 2014-2016. |
LISA PAULSEN
joined the Theater Studies faculty in 2001 and regularly teaches courses in acting. She has also been part of creating a unique co-teaching model for playwriting, in conjunction with the Creative Writing faculty. In 2006, Ms. Paulsen was named Director of the Playwriting Center of Theater Emory, which includes the bi-ennial play development lab, Brave New Works. As a resident actor and director for Theater Emory, she has directed This Property is Condemned as part of the Young Acts and Midsummer Night's Dream. She also appeared as Lily in Ah, Wilderness!, as well as taking part in The Family Project and Brave New Works. In addition, she choreographed several of the violence sequences for King Lear, directed by Tim McDonough and was period style coach forShe Stoops to Conquer, directed by Michael Evenden. |
ZANA POUNCEY
Is currently a junior studying at Emory University. She is minoring in theatre studies and has been involved with several theatre projects while at Emory. In the spring of 2014 she was apart of Theatre Emory's collaboration with the dance department in their production Free/ Fall. Most recently, Zana has just finished up as an Co-director of the student produced production o Tennessee Williams' classic Streetcar Named Desire. This upcoming spring of 2015, she will be featuring as an actress in Emory's student produced play For Colored Girls. |
TROIZEL CARR
Is currently a Senior at Emory University double majoring in Theatre Studies and Women, Gender, and Sexuality. In the past, Troizel has been involved in numerous productions at Emory featuring as both actor in director. Titles include I Am Not That I Play, Brave New Works: The Sapelo Project, and Free/Fall just to name a few. He is currently director of Emory's issues troupe and a Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellow. Upcoming projects include both an honor thesis exploring black queer male femininity in theatre and For Colored Girls which he is directing both of which will have performances in spring of 2015. |