A multi-media interpretation of the letters and poems of Emily Dickinson, restoring the wild frustration of her lesbian passion, as well as her volcanic rage about living with a disability that was considered unspeakable.

• 2012,  PortFringe Festival, Portland,  Maine.
• 2012, Fresh Fruit Festival, NYC.

"a cool, queer, one-woman play that dramatizes Dickinson’s passion for the girl next door... The Dickinson striding and prowling the stage in Emily & Sue is the Dickinson brought into public consciousness by a line of painstaking biographical and textual scholarship focused on sex and gender that goes all the way back to Rebecca Patterson’s The Riddle of Emily Dickinson, published in 1951. It’s good to see that forceful, fascinating figure brought to life in a taut production that does justice to both the intensity and the complexity of a relationship that endured for close to forty years. If Emily & Sue comes to your neck of the woods, you should see it. It will banish the timid ghost of the gingerbread-bearing Belle of Amherst from your memory banks forever."-- Madwoman With a Laptop Blog, NYC (Click here to read full review.)


Contact the tour producer, Merry Gangemi!

• The Creative Team
• Adaptor's Notes
• Director's Vision
• Open Me Carefully: Emily Dickinson's Intimate Letters to Susan Huntington Dickinson