Emily Mann

Marta Fernandez-Morales (Universidad de Oviedo)

Ed. by Nick Selby, University of East Anglia
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 3.2.4: American (US) Writing and Culture: Postwar and Contemporary, 1945-present.
Vol. editors: Emory Elliott (University of California, Riverside), Dale Enggass (University of Utah), Christopher Hugh Gair (University of Glasgow), Matthew Hofer (University of New Mexico), Stephen E. Meats (Pittsburg State University), Kerry Myler (Newman University), Justin Parks (UiT - The Arctic University of Norway), Nick Selby (University of East Anglia)

Dates

Born 12 Apr 1952
Activity 1977-ongoing

Places

Born in United States
Active in United States

Activities

Primary

Playwright / Dramatist
Theatre Director

Resources

In the last few years, North American authors like Anna Deavere Smith, Erik Jensen, and Jessica Blank have given a new impulse to the Documentary Theatre genre. Initiated by Erwin Piscator (1893-1966) and theorized by Peter Weiss (1916-1982), it has found one of its best contemporary exponents in playwright Emily Mann. As a dramatic writer, and also as an artistic director, Mann repeatedly poses one question to her audiences: what to do with what we know. Theatre, for her, has three main functions: entertainment, education, and inspiration. In her original scripts, her adaptations, and her productions, she respects this principle and makes a conscious effort to build a community around the stages she works on, most frequently …

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Citation: Fernandez-Morales, Marta. "Emily Mann". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 04 March 2009 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=5735, accessed 26 April 2024.]

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