Program Recognition
•Joint major between Theater Studies and Creative Writing departments
•Theater Emory's Playwriting Center has provided resources for student playwrights since 1989
Performance & Productions
•Brave New Works biennial festival has developed over 100 new works, many produced at regional theaters from Yale Repertory Theater to Oregon Shakespeare Festival
•Lenaia Festival — annual student-run festival featuring staged readings of student plays-in-progress
•Faculty playwright Kimberly Belflower's John Proctor Is the Villain earned 7 Tony nominations on Broadway (2025)
•Nationally known playwrights visit campus annually — past visitors include Athol Fugard, Paula Vogel, John Guare, David Henry Hwang, and Theresa Rebeck
Notable Alumni
•Lauren Gunderson ('04) — America's most-produced living playwright (2017, 2019, 2023); Steinberg/ATCA New Play Award winner for I and You and The Book of Will Professional Development
•Tommy Sullivan-Lovett's play won the Tennessee Williams Festival in New Orleans
•Students compete annually for the Artistine Mann Playwriting Award
