Grad Acting: Emily Gardner Xu Hall ('13) Wins 2021 Dramatist Guild Stephen Schwartz Award

Monday, Apr 18, 2022

Emily Gardner Xu Hall

Emily Gardner Xu Hall

Congratulations to class of 2013's Emily Gardner Xu Hall for being chosen as the recipent of the 2021 Dramatists Guild Stephen Schwartz Award as a composer, lyricist, and librettist. 

"The Stephen Swartz Award is a pledge to the future of musical theatre. Selected by a private committee of composers and industry leaders, the $10,000 Award is given annually to a musical theatre writer whose voice is seen as critical to the continued success of the craft, in unconditional support of their work."

Some of Emily's current projects include a commissioned musical with the Atlantic Theatre Company, the development of a feminist musical reinvention of the Chekhov play, "Cherry Orchard," and the continued work on her play with music, "MEI-DO."

To read more about Emily's award, click the article below!

To learn more about Emily's work, you can go to her website, also linked below.