​Emily Boyd Dahab (she/her) is a Long Island-based playwright, lyricist, dramaturg, teacher, administrator, advocate and parent.​

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Her plays have been produced at Barrington Stage Company, Red Bull Theater, and the Nuyorican Poet’s Café. Her verse play Swansong was published by Steele Spring Press. She participated in the BMI Musical Theater Workshop’s 2022 bookwriting cohort and is currently a member of the BMI 2023 lyricists cohort. Her play “Safe As Houses” was a semifinalist for the 2023 O’Neill Playwright’s Conference. As a Lyricist, she is one half of the musical theatre writing duo Dahab & Horner.

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As a dramaturg, she has worked on productions at Columbia School of the Arts, The Brick Theater, The 13th Street Theater, and for The Classical Theatre of Harlem/Columbia. Most recently she served as a dramaturg and contributing writer and lyricist on The Momversations Project, a multi-media endeavor of The National Women’s Theatre Festival of Raleigh, NC. She received her MFA in Dramaturgy from Columbia School of the Arts. She has a prior MA in Medieval & Renaissance Studies from Columbia.

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As an actor she appeared at theatres around the country, including The Gallery Players, Barrington Stage, and The Red Bull Theatre, and received a post-grad diploma from The London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. She is also proud to have completed the two-year program at the William Esper Studio studying Meisner technique under master teacher Bill Esper himself.

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She has served as a faculty member of the Tom Todoroff Conservatory in New York City, where she re-envisioned and taught a year-long course on Western Theater History and Dramaturgy. She recently joined the faculty of Five Towns College, where she will teach Theatre History and Directing to undergraduate BFA students. She also currently serves as the Chief Representative of the Long Island chapter of the Parent Artist Advocacy League, and on the Board of the Bay Shore Schools Arts in Education Fund, helping ensure that the students of Bay Shore district receive arts experiences of the highest quality as part of their public-school education.

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She is the mother of three young children and an avid gardener of native plants.