Playwriting
Full-Length Plays
Overgrown
Development - Jackalope Playwrights Lab, led by Omer Abbas Salem (2023)
Witchcraft, Bitchcraft
Commission - Pocket Theatre VR, led by Joel Willison & Willow James (2022)
Workshop - Pocket Theatre VR, dir. Ben F Locke (2022)
landscape
Reading - Valdez Theatre Conference dir. Carrie Yanagawa (2024)
Semifinalist - Irons in the Fire at Fault Line Theatre (2024)
Finalist - The Inkwell Theater’s LAB Series (2023)
Finalist - NAP Series at Normal Ave (2023)
Seminalist - Premiere Play Festival (2022)
Reading - Mirrorbox Theatre, dir. Regina Victor (2020)
Workshop - The Theatre School at DePaul University, dir. Regina Victor (2020)
Reading of Witchcraft, Bitchcraft at Pocket Theatre VR
Left to Right: Emma Durbin, Laura Rojas, Rita Taylor Wicks, Ben F. Locke, Lifan Deng.
Short Plays
En Route
Semifinalist - Minnesota Shorts Play Festival (2023)
What we became, almost, and in-between.
Reading – Playwrights Aloud at Chicago Dramatists (2023)
Reading - Naked Angels Tuesdays at 9 (2022)
Belle and the Wretched Enchantress
Reading - Spring 48 Hour Play Festival at Chicago Dramatists, dir. Joel Willison (2022)
Sisters Passed
Production - Hive Westmont Fringe Festival, dir. Ceili Smaw (2020)
>>>The live production of Sisters Passed was canceled due to COVID-19. An audio recording of the play will be released shortly!
Town Hall
Reading - First Annual 4:20 New Play Festival, dir. Becca Braun (2020)
Listen to an audio recording of the play on SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/user-932316691/town-hall-by-emma-durbin
A Study
Reading - Wrights of Spring at The Theatre School at DePaul University (2017)
Undercover
Reading - Original Works at Mountain Avenue Theatre (2016)
Reading - Western Washington University (2015)
The Theatre School at DePaul University
Playwriting Cohort
Photo by Connor Bradshaw: Matthew Carpenter, Brent Leibowitz, Emma Durbin, Madie Doppelt. Not pictured: Connor Bradshaw.