EMILY GARDNER XU HALL is a composer, lyricist, playwright and actor. Music/lyrics/book: Untitled Cherry Orchard Musical (Musical Theatre Factory), Cymbeline, I Am This For You (Ars Nova ANT Fest), Nascent Phase (Bushwick Starr Reading Series). Collaborations include Black Is Beautiful… (with Kareem M. Lucas, Public Theater Under the Radar Festival), The Cardinal (with Cusi Cram, Cornerstone Theatre Company), Ruth Bader Ginsburg Project (with Dianne Nora, Goodman Theatre Playwrights’ Unit). Alum of New Dramatists Composer-Librettist Studio, member of BMI Workshop. Awards: “Go Write a Musical” Lilly Award, American Theatre Wing Jonathan Larson Award. BA Wellesley College; MFA, NYU Graduate Acting. emilygardnerhall.com
