Emma Horwitz’s
MARY GETS HERS
Directed by Josiah Davis
It’s the 10th century! A plague rages on in Germany! Everyone is turning into foam! When two overzealous hermits find an abandoned orphan named Mary, they scheme a saintly rescue mission to protect her purity at any and all costs. Mary, however, has other plans for herself, in this new play inspired by Hrotsvitha of Gandersheim’s closet drama-comedy Abraham, or the Rise and Repentance of Mary.
Emma Horwitz is a writer from New York City. Her plays have recently been supported by New Georges (2022-2023 Audrey Resident w/ Bailey Williams, Affiliated Artist), Clubbed Thumb (2022-2023 Early Career Writers Group), The Playwrights Realm (2021-2022 Writing Fellow), Williamstown Theater Festival (2020 “Playwright-in-Residence”), Two Headed Rep (Reno & Moll) & elsewhere. Her work in fiction and comix has been published by Joyland Magazine, Two Serious Ladies, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, Spiral Bound, McSweeney's Internet Tendency & elsewhere. She has held residencies with Erik Ehn’s Stillwright, Arts Letters & Numbers, and CAMP (Collaborative Arts Mobility Project), and received the 2022 Chelsey/Bumbalo Playwriting Award for The Executrix.
Josiah Davis (he/him) is a director, choreographer, performer, designer whose work intersects expressive movement, live music, emerging technology, and ritual to breathe new life into physical storytelling. He is the Associate Artistic Director of On The Verge Theatre Company-Santa Barbara, a New York Theatre Workshop 2050 Fellow, Clubbed Thumb Directing Fellow, and Soul Directing Resident with the National Black Theatre. He received an MFA from Brown/Trinity Rep in Directing and a BA from UCLA School of Theater, Film, and Television. Recent work: AMANI (NBT/Rattlestick), Clyde’s (Alabama Shakespeare/Arkansas Rep), Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief (TheatreWorksUSA), Omar Offrendum’s Little Syria (BAM), Asc. Director-Mr.Saturday Night (Broadway). josiahdavis.net
Octavia Chavez-Richmond
Claire Siebers
Olivia Miller
Kai Heath
Haley Wong
Taji Senior
Susannah Perkins
Martha Epstein
You-Shin Chen
Scenic Design
Camilla Dely
Costume Design
Cha See
Lighting Design
Kathy Ruvuna
Sound Design
Gabby Goldman
Props Design
Claire Yenson
Casting
Kate Croasdale
Stage Manager
Sammy Landau
Assistant Stage Manager
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Read these features on the play and its creators:
“The playwright Emma Horwitz has lived in New York most of her life. The scent of the city is the scent of her memories — or the reek, depending. ‘To this day, when it becomes summer and I smell a stinking garbage truck, I think of my childhood,” Horwitz, 31, said. “I think immediately of being 7 years old.’”
“In the early autumn of 2018, I wrote the play Mary Gets Hers in response to an unrelenting series of losses in my life. Basically, I needed to laugh. During that winter’s Writing is Live festival at Brown University, I was paired to work alongside the director Josiah Davis.”
