emily / BUBECK

emily/BUBECK (she/her/hers) (theatre | FIBER | performance)

is a Queer, Catholic, Appalachian theatre practitioner who facilitates the development and consumption of new works by traditionally underrepresented artists. She is drawn to projects that allow us to expand our ideas on how we tell stories and who those stories serve.

As a freelance producer BUBECK brings her wealth of practical production knowledge, innate sense of scrappiness, and a holistic communitarian approach to the work. emily is a co-founder and co-artistic director of BREAKING & ENTERING THEATRE COLLECTIVE, where she has produced 5 seasons of the site specific ROOFTOP READING series, 3 festivals of new work at the Chain Theatre and an entire year of online programming.

When it comes to arts administration emily is a true project manager at heart. She specializes in streamlining systems on the fly, and believes it her duty to ensure the systems we use to structure our work reflect our values as artists. Her early days in New York were spent interning at various developmental labs and downtown staples like soho rep., En Garde Arts, Cherry Lane Theater and New Dramatists, while her nights were spent working off broadway box office shifts (Ticket Central) and serving as a facilities manager in non-profit rehearsal spaces (A.R.T/New York). She is currently the Development Associate at New Dramatists, where she is proud to fundraise for the prolific organization and provide space for the future of American storytelling.

As a director Bubeck thrives in long form developmental settings, working dramaturgically with playwrights to understand why they need to tell this story. She developed ROLE FOR INITIATIVE with Sam Hamashima through SERIALS over the course of a year before bringing the full length piece to ARS NOVA in February of 2023. emily has also been collaborating with playwright (and friend-from-undergrad) SMJ on ‘yoho. A Pirate Play about Mary Read and Anne Bonny’ since 2022, sharing the most recent script through the Latinx Playwrights Circle in September 2024. Bubeck has a distinct passion for telling working class stories and engaging with masculinity through the narratives of women and other oppressed genders.

emily has built quite a stage management CV since 2018 - turning to the craft whenever times are tight or the project is right. She’s done it all - from one night only festival performances with approx. 1.5 hours of tech, to a month long run of an off-broadway musical (yes she reads music!), to an OBJECT COLLECTION show at LaMama that incorporated 5 onstage, manually manipulated projectors (not to mention fully improvised live music) - there’s really nothing that scares her. Creating theater is like catching lightning in a bottle and, as a stage manager, she is committed to creating a repeatable process and a safe space for artists to do their best work.

BUBECK clearly loves generative work, and every so often she’ll even sit down to write something herself. She has three pieces in development, (my body is falling apart and i’m not sure what to do anymore, Don’t Let Me Walk Away and Women’s Work) each experiments with the space between theater and performance art in their own unique way. more soon on those.

Her ‘jack of all trades’ sensibility may not jive with modern conservatory based training methods, but emily believes the breadth of her knowledge gives her the context she needs to properly facilitate the theater making process, as well as an ingrained sense of respect for the various artists, collaborators, hourly workers and vendors that make this work possible. Her love for her community is reflected in her work, and she relishes the opportunity to tell stories - whether she is producing, performing or picking up the trash afterwards.

BUBECK’s work has been described as D.I.Y., women-centric, layered, authentic and engaging: and her approach to the rehearsal room has been explained as “no bullshit with a big dose of kindness.” In her spare time BUBECK is wont to section hike the Appalachian trail, experiment with crochet and get a little too stoned before seeing a show at the Tank. She loves the Anne of Green Gables series and smutty literature with equal fervor and, like her Grandmothers, emily has a daily habit of praying the rosary. She takes (in person) prayer requests, if that’s something that interests you. She’s a proud member of the American Legion Auxilary (post 177), and crocheted 200 hats in 2024 for victims of Hurricane Helene. Taurus Sun Libra rising Gemini moon (which is why this bio is so lengthy)