We’re thrilled to continue spotlighting the creative team for Aves – Autta + Ino + Mel with Emily Hartford, Flux Creative Partner and the director for the workshop! We asked Emily a few questions based on Rebecca Ana Peña’s powerful new play, which you can learn more about here.

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Let’s say you decide to establish a new religion: what or who would you put at the center?

We could do worse than worship the ocean.

Tell me something wonderful about girlhood (either from experience, or observation).

The best memories of girlhood feel like wildness to me–that time when it was easy to remain a little bit feral. Disappearing on bikes down forest trails, plucking crayfish out of the stream, spending the summer building up callouses from a few months spent barefoot… (Grown-Girl Summer Camp, anyone??)

If you had the power to glimpse the future, would you? What would you try to see?

It doesn’t seem to go well in the myths…maybe best to steer clear!

Anything coming up you want to tell us about?

Metra: A Climate Revolution with Songs (the narrative, musical podcast!), by me and Ned Hartford, originally a play produced by Flux, is coming to all devices this summer! Follow us @metrathemusical

Emily Hartford (she/her) is a Flux Creative Partner, theatre and media director, intimacy director, creator, artistic leader, and educator. With Flux: Metra: A Climate Revolution with Songs, Our Options Have Changed, Operating Systems, Rizing (director and/or creator); Sea Concerto (actor); Salvage and Jane the Plain (assistant director). Other recent projects include Marian, or the True Tale of Robin Hood and Concord Floral at Atlantic Acting School; Coriolanus and Dike at Hofstra University; Antigonick and Dragons Love Tacos at Hangar Theatre (director). Emily serves on the faculty of Playwrights Horizons Theatre School-NYU Tisch. Drama League Directing Fellow, Member of the Lincoln Center Directors Lab, SDC Associate Member.

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