Author name: emmamaggibyers

I'm an Actor and Writer living in New York City. I'm currently a Freshman BFA student at The New School of Drama studying acting, playwriting, and directing.

Fuente Ovejuna: A Disloyal Adaptation

Emma played Luz in Cusi Cram’s adaptation of the Spanish Classic Fuente Ovejuna in Fall 2019. Fuente Ovejuna: A Disloyal Adaptation, 2019, School of Drama, The New School, Christina Roussos (Director), Matthew S. Crane (Scenic Design), Karim Rivera Rosado (Costume Design), Jon Degaetano (Lighting Design), Megan “Deets” Culley (Sound Design), Mitchell McCoy (Fight/Intimacy Director) Michelle Zaya Tumur (Student

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Portrait of a Girl who is Possibly on the Edge of a Building

by: Emma Maggi-Byers I used to lie          I still do Storytelling          my parents called it Only so they could feel better          I never knew why My kindergarten teacher I had her fooled          grandmas as trapeze artists          little brothers never born phantom ailments         bandaids protecting nothing Sometimes           I wouldn’t brush my teeth          so I’d have a

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“What’s your biggest pet peeve about the way that people write about your generation?”

I exist in the ambiguous space between generations. It’s like I walk the train-tracks that bisect the “wrong” and “right” sides of a proverbial town in the sort of romantic-comedy you might find in the deep underbelly of Netflix. I was born in 1999. I don’t remember much of it as I was trying to

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