Discipline: Theatre – playwriting

Emily Schwend

Discipline: Theatre – playwriting
Region: Brooklyn, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 2012

Emily Schwend worked on a new play about Barbara Newhall Follett and a feature film. Her play SOUTH OF SETTLING was produced at Steppenwolf in their Next Up Repertory.

Studios

MacDowell

Emily Schwend worked in the MacDowell studio.

Built in 1912, Pine Studio was renamed MacDowell Studio in 1943 in recognition of support from a group of Edward MacDowell’s music students. It was built as a composers’ studio and the stuccoed walls were intended to be soundproof. Like many of the studios on property, MacDowell was winterized in the 1950s when the program began welcoming…

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