Bio
Emily Kaye Lazzaro is a playwright and actor. In 2011 she quit her office job to make theatre full time.
Emily was born and raised in Connecticut, outside New York City. She moved to Boston in 2003 where she earned a BFA in Theatre Arts in 2007 and an MFA in Playwriting in 2011, both at Boston University. She also studied Irish ensemble acting in Dublin through New York University’s Tisch School for the Arts and Trinity College, Dublin.
Emily’s undergraduate thesis, Be The Dog, was adapted from four short stories from the collection How We Are Hungry by Dave Eggers. Be The Dog was produced in 2008 by Pendragon Theatre Company in Saranac Lake, New York, and in 2009 at the New York International Fringe Festival.
Her ten-minute play Crickets was produced by the Boston Center for American Performance (BCAP) as part of the 2011 Boston Theatre Marathon and in August of 2011 in Chicago along with another of Emily’s ten-minute plays, Saving DeShawn, or The Carrot Play, at Gorilla Tango Theatre. Emily’s MFA thesis, Grief and Surfing, had a staged reading as part of the Oberon New Works Series at Oberon in Cambridge, Massachusetts, also in August of 2011.
Emily collaborated with Playwrights Commons and the participants of the 2011 Freedom Art Retreat to create a shadow puppet play, The First Person To Consider The Sun, that was performed as part of the September 2011 Puppet Slam at the Puppet Showplace Theatre in Brookline, Massachusetts.
As an actor, Emily was seen most recently in Fresh Ink Theatre Company’s production of Priscilla Dreams the Answer by Walt McGough at the Factory Theatre in Boston. She will be appearing in the upcoming Boston One-Minute Play Festival, for which she also wrote two new plays.
Emily is a 2011-2012 New Voices @ New Rep Playwriting Fellow. New Repertory Theatre Company will produce a reading of her new play, The Circus, in June of 2012.
Emily lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts with her husband Billy and their cat Oscar.
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