Emily Mann

2013-06-01

Host Sandi Klein talks to Emily Mann, the award-winning Artistic Director and Resident Playwright at the McCarter Theatre in Princeton, New Jersey. Mann is fresh off winning the 2013 Tony Award for Best Play - Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike. In 1994, just four years on the job at McCarter, she was honored with a Tony for Outstanding Regional Theater. In 2011 Mann was named the National Theater Conference's Person of the Year. During this candid conversation, Emily shares w...

Host Sandi Klein talks to Emily Mann, the award-winning Artistic Director and Resident Playwright at the McCarter Theatre in Princeton, New Jersey. Mann is fresh off winning the 2013 Tony Award for Best Play - Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike. In 1994, just four years on the job at McCarter, she was honored with a Tony for Outstanding Regional Theater. In 2011 Mann was named the National Theater Conference's Person of the Year.

During this candid conversation, Emily shares what it was like to break through the theater's glass ceiling. Mann also talks about her time in Minneapolis at the Guthrie Theatre and her friendship with legendary playwright Tennessee Williams.

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