News:
The TEAM’s RECONSTRUCTING and Lisa Fagan & Lena Engelstein’s FRIDAY NIGHT RAT CATCHERS will be featured in Under The Radar 2026.
Fake Friends’ CIRCLE JERK wins an Obie award.
ABOUT ME:
Born & raised in Brooklyn, Emma Orme is an Obie award-winning independent creative producer who works in close partnership with experimental artists like Lisa Fagan & Lena Engelstein (the “High Weird” - Helen Shaw) and nicHi douglas, and companies like Fake Friends and CHILD. She is currently the Producing Director of internationally-renowned theater collective the TEAM, working in close partnership with Artistic Director Rachel Chavkin and artists like Libby King, Josiah Davis, Eric Berryman, Zhailon Levingston, James Monaco, Jillian Walker, and more.
Emma has a steady track-record of stewarding ambitious works from nascent idea to critical acclaim & box office hits—at institutions like New York Live Arts, BAM, Theater Mitu, NYTW, The Public, La MaMa, Baryshnikov Arts Center, The Flea, Atlantic Theater, Drama League, Colt Coeur, and more. Hallmark productions include the Obie Award-winning Off-Broadway premiere of CIRCLE JERK and CHILD’s 1-800, called the Best of 2024 by Helen Shaw.
A fellow of WP’s 2022-24 Producers Lab, Emma has also had wide-ranging institutional producing and fundraising experience, at Williamstown Theatre Festival, Theater Mitu, New York Theatre Workshop, The New York Times, Hypokrit Productions, Media Art Exploration, Northern Stage, and more. BA: Dartmouth College.