Press
“Emery Schaffer’s bristling 45 minute play I Hope It All Burns premiered at The Barron in the Byre Studio recently under the expert guidance of director Vee Campbell. With a restrained set and costume design and distinct artistic choices, I Hope It All Burns offers an immersive theatrical experience, one which embarks on a beautifully tender yet ferocious emotional experience.”
- Caroline Burnham, HerCampus
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“Becky Knows What Sex Is
[by Emery Schaffer]
finds characters, parents Ernie and Larry, delivering an engagingly compelling and sympathetic, yet light-hearted and humorous performance while examining a very difficult topic for many parents. This play does a great job of delving into this topic in a very earnest way.”
- Pierre Louis
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“A My Name is Allison packs a lot into its well-paced one-hour running time. It is hilarious and melancholy, sweet and surprising, and never less than wholly entertaining. You'll never see board game night the same way again.”
- John R. Ziegler and Leah Richards ,Thinking Theatre NYC
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“An incredible mixing of genre. This play succeeds at being both laugh out loud funny (even on the page), deeply creepy, and legitimately moving. Truly the best absurdist horror romantic comedy I've ever read.”
- E. Brain, playwright and producer