Emily mann biography
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Emily mann biography
Emily Mann (director)
American stage director and dramatist
Emily Betsy Mann (born April 12, 1952) is an American director, playwright and screenwriter.[1] She served as the artistic director and resident playwright of the McCarter Theatre Center from 1990 to 2020.[2]
Career
As the McCarter Theatre Center's Artistic Director and Resident Playwright from 1990 to 2020, Mann oversaw more than 160 productions, including more than 40 world premieres.
During her tenure, the theater won the Tony Award for Outstanding Regional Theatre and Mann herself was twice nominated for Tony Awards as a playwright and director. She was inducted into The American Theater Hall of Fame.
Her other personal awards include the Peabody Award, the Hull-Warriner Award from the Dramatists Guild, awards from the NAACP, eight Obie awards, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the 2011 Person of the Year Award from the National Theater Conference, as well as the Margo Jones Award, given to a "cit