Emily Boyd Dahab is an interdisciplinary theatre-artist with sixteen years of training in theatre studies. She is a faculty member at the Tom Todoroff Conservatory, where she teaches a year-long course on Western Theater History and Dramaturgy.

Emily received her MFA in Dramaturgy from Columbia School of the Arts, where she wrote her thesis on the process of building theaters to accommodate the unique needs of suburban communities. She has a prior MA in Medieval & Renaissance Studies from Columbia, and degrees in Classical Acting from The London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, and Theatre and Performance Studies from The University of Chicago. She studied Meisner Technique with Bill Esper for two years.

Her plays have been produced at Barrington Stage, Red Bull, and the Nuyorican Poet’s Café. Her verse play Swansong was published by Steele Spring Press. She has dramaturged productions at Columbia, The Brick Theater, The 13th Street Theater, and for The Classical Theatre of Harlem. Presently she is a dramaturg for The Momversations, a multi-media project of The National Women’s Theater Festival which includes a podcast and play devised from interviews with diverse moms around the country. She is a mom of two under three.