E-Merging Writers, et al (about us)

E-Merging Writers exists to:

• help playwrights in any way possible, but mainly to provide its decade-old listing of playwriting opportunities;
• publish up-and-coming playwrights and promote their work.

E-Merging Writers began in 2000, after five years of providing playwriting assitance and services, and assisting each other with small-scale productions and promoting of each other’s work.  The New York-based group conducted readings of new works, both formal and informal, then launched its first production assisting solo show Southern Gothic Novel make its debut at the New York International Fringe Festival in 2003.  The show was also produced in Baltimore, Atlanta, and Columbus, Ohio.  E-Merging Writers produced The Gates of Helen by Murray Scott Changar in early 2004, produced a promo CD for the musical Alice by William Wade and Frank Blocker as well as several readings of that same show.  The last production of E-Merging Writers as a sole entity (not in partnership) was Eula Mae’s Beauty, Bait & Tackle at The Duplex, NYC, 2006.

The group then joined with Creative Mechanics (a now defunct New-York based theatre company that included Shannon Maddox, Avi Glickstein, Gabriel Shanks, Jan Herndon) to launch the playwriting competition “Stage This! The Best Ten-Minute Plays We Could Find.”   We teamed with new production company, Fn Productions, in 2007 to continue the biennial competition for 10-minute plays.  After witnessing the success and artist response from the production, we then decided to offer the publication annually, alternating between 10-minute play collections and a volume of monologues.

Our books in print are:

• Stage This, TOO! More Ten-Minute Plays (and a couple of kick-ass monologues), 2007
• Stage This!  The Best Ten-Minute Plays We Could Find, 2005.
• The Slaves of Votarus, sci-fi novel by Murray Scott Changar, 2004.
• Queer Chronices: The Flaming of Atlanta, as told by Kenneth Allen, 2004.

Though the cast of E-Merging Writers changes regularly — as it should — we have been known to have worked with many fine people such as:

Bobby Abid
Eric C. Bailey
David-Matthew Barnes
Amy Heath Bell
Helen Bessette
Frank Blocker
Alex Broun
Rochelle Burdine
Emilie Byron
Mark Castle
Murray Scott Changar
Chima Chikazunga
Bronwen Coleman
Bill Cosgriff
Creative Mechanics
Craig Delancey
William DeMeritt
Stacia Fernandez
Fn Productions
Wendy-Marie Foerster
Tom Grady
David Guaspari
Janice Kennedy
Cheryl King
Vicki Riba Koestler
Heather Koren
J. Michael Harper
Mitchell Horn
Evangeline Johns
Bill Johnson
LaChris Jordan
Jeffrey James Keyes
Steven Korbar
Shannon Maddox
Moti Margolin
Claude McMillan
Shannon Murdoch
Bonnie Navarro
Robbie Neigeborn
Jon Tyler Owens
Peculiar Works Project
Lynn Phillips
Evelyn J. Pine
Lowell Press
Barry Rowell
Adam Ruben
Brian Schlanger
Krista Severeid
Jen Shanks
Peter Snoad
Sydney Stone
Stacie Theon
Greg Tito
Ian Rafael Titus
Will Trice
Dana Todd
William Wade
Mary Ann Walsh
Cara Vander Weil
Michael Yeshion