Emily Mann

Emily Betsy Mann is an American director, playwright and screenwriter. She served as the artistic director and resident playwright of the McCarter Theatre Center in Princeton, NJ from 1990 to 2020. Over the course of her 30-year tenure—during which McCarter won the prestigious Tony Award for Outstanding Regional Theatre—she oversaw more than 160 productions, including more than 40 world premieres.

Her plays include: Having Our Say, adapted from the book by Sarah L. Delany and A. Elizabeth Delany with Amy Hill Hearth; Execution of Justice; Still Life; Annulla, An Autobiography; Greensboro (A Requiem); Meshugah; Mrs. Packard; and Hoodwinked (a Primer on Radical Islamism). Her inventive, research-driven work gave rise to a new genre called "theater of testimony."

Her adaptations include: Baby Doll, Scenes from a Marriage, Uncle Vanya, The Cherry Orchard, A Seagull in the Hamptons, The House of Bernarda Alba, and Antigone. 

Mann is currently working on The Pianist.

She is the subject of a biography by Alexis Greene, Emily Mann: Rebel Artist of the American Theater.