About Emily Mann

Born in Boston in 1952, Emily Mann received a B.A. from Harvard and an MFA from the University of Minnesota. Her first play, Annulla Allen: Autobiography of a Survivor, premiered at The Guthrie Theater’s Guthrie 2 under her direction in 1977 and was later produced at Chicago’s Goodman Theatre and on Earplay. Mann’s most recent play, Execution of Justice, which depicts the trial of Dan White for the killing of George Moscone and Harvey Milk, was commissioned by the Eureka Theatre Company of San Francisco and first produced by Actors Theatre of Louisville, as co-winner of its 1984 Great American Play Contest. Mann’s directorial credits include the BAM Theater Company’s productions of He and She and Oedipus the King, the Guthrie’s The Glass Menagerie and ATL’s A Weekend near Madison, which subsequently ran Off Broadway. She has been the recipient of a CAPS grant, a Guggenheim fellowship and an NEA artistic associateship, and is a 1985 McKnight Fellow. In 1983 Mann received the Rosamond Gilder Award from the New Drama Forum for “outstanding creative achievement in the theatre.”