EMOS Ecodrama Playwrights' Festival and Symposium

Start: Thursday, March 5, 2026 5:00PM
End: Sunday, March 8, 2026 9:30PM

The Department of Theatre, Film, and Media Arts is hosting the EMOS Ecodrama Playwrights' Festival and Symposium in March 2026. The winning play, Acute Exposure by August Hakvaag, will be produced as part of the department's mainstage season. The Plume by Maggie Kearnan, the second-place script, will receive a staged reading during the symposium. Earth Matters on Stage (EMOS) was founded by Theresa May and Larry Fried in 2004. EMOS is a consortium of artists, educators, activists, and scholars who believe that theatre and the performing arts must respond to the environmental crisis. EMOS calls forth and fosters new dramatic work and performances that help us re-imagine our human place in a more-than-human world. At the heart of EMOS is the Ecodrama New Play Contest, which calls playwrights and theatre makers to engage in the global and local ecological issues that face societies across cultures. The concurrent EMOS Symposium fosters dialogue about the intersection of environment, culture, and performance.