Hi! My name is Emily Mayo, and I use she/her pronouns. I am a producer, director, writer, and arts administrator born and raised just outside of Washington D.C. and currently based in Brooklyn.

My passion for storytelling - dating back to an elementary school teacher who bribed me to read Shakespeare with chocolate bars and a production of Les Miserables at a local touring house - led me to my deep passions for history and theatre, which I have used collaboratively in my mission to uncover both objective and artistic truth about lives near and far from our own.

I have spent the last several years adapting, directing, and creating an artistic body of work primarily focused on centering feminist and queer experiences in classical texts, building in the process a company of artistic collaborators committed to realizing the same vision and to growing together creatively over time. Directing and writing projects in this vein include a “Roaring ‘20s” production of Much Ado About Nothing (Brown’s first live show post-COVID-19 pandemic), a site-specific production of Julius Caesar set in a girls’ boarding school, an in-the-round production of Anne Carson’s Antigone/Antigonick, a site-specific garden production of As You Like It, and an unofficial musical adaptation of Madeline Miller’s queer modern epic, The Song of Achilles. I have collaborated on other projects as a stage manager, production manager, music director, and designer.

Additionally, I have been committed to facilitating and producing artistic experiences for audiences both close to home and around the world. With Whitman Drama, Brown University, and Wilbury Theatre Group, I have produced eight full-length shows as well as several shorter showcases and one short film, with teams ranging from under 10 to over 200 and budgets ranging from $0 to $30,000. I have also amassed general producing and administrative experience at regional and New York-area theatres such as the Irish Arts Center (New York City, NY), the Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey (Madison, NJ), Brown Arts Institute (Providence, RI), and Adventure Theatre-Musical Theatre Center (Bethesda, MD). Most recently, I was a member of RCI Theatricals’ summer General Management internship cohort, supporting Broadway shows like Hadestown, &Juliet, Our Town, and Gypsy, and an opening night assistant for 101 Productions’ Sunset Boulevard.

Currently, I work as an account assistant for the Pekoe Group for Broadway shows including SIX and Operation Mincemeat, as well as the production manager for Sue Pam-Grant’s American premiere of Why do Moths Fly like Crazy Fucks in the Night? I am consistently seeking out administrative opportunities in or adjacent to theatrical general management and artistic producing, as well as opportunities to continue to hone my directing craft. And in my free time - when I have any - I love to bake new things, discuss the latest Survivor season, search for the best coffee in NYC, and update my Goodreads!