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Emma Cordray | 614.581.9740 | ekcordray@gmail.com

Writer & Producer | Esperanza Rising: The Musical | 2022-Present, with Jimena Caballero

Writing Coach | Prompt | 2023-Present

Fulbright Madrid Global Classrooms Program Manager | Fulbright Spain 2022-3

Fulbright English Teaching Assistant | Fulbright Spain | 2021-3

Ad Sales Manager, 33rd and 35th Festival of New Musicals | National Alliance for Musical Theatre | 2021, 2023

Education Intern | Escuela JANA | 2021-2

English Tutor | Freelance | 2021-3

Reader | National Alliance for Musical Theatre | 2022

Production Assistant | Pittsburgh CLO | 2021

Artistic Intern | Pittsburgh CLO | 2020 

Reader | National Playwrights Conference, The Eugene O'Neill Theater Center| 2020

Reader | Austin Film Festival2019-2021

Teaching Artist | Harmony Project | 2018-21

Greece International Theatre Apprentice | One Year Lease Theater Company | 2019

Reader | Kitchen Dog Theater2018

Education and Community Outreach Intern | Signature Theatre2017

Teaching Asst. and Box Office Asst. | CATCO is Theatre2016

A Lack of Equilibrium | Devised by students ages 13-16 | IES Juan Bautista Monegro; 2023

Bad Apples | Devised by students ages 13-16 | IES Juan Bautista Monegro; 2022

Workshare of Birds & Beansprouts: A New Musical | by Joe Young | Independently produced with Carnegie Mellon University; 2021 

"Acuarela" Music Video | by MENA | Independently produced; 2021 

BXA Capstone: Esperanza Rising: The Musical | by Jimena Caballero and Emma Cordray | Carnegie Mellon University; 2021

The Beach | by Kathryn Vargish | Carnegie Mellon University; 2021

Macbeth | by William Shakespeare | Braving the Bard; 2020

Red Hood(ie) | by Alexis Elisa Macedo | Independent Podcast; 2020

Dance Light 2020 | Carnegie Mellon University; 2020

Birds & Beansprouts: A New Musical (Concert Reading) | by Joe Young | Carnegie Mellon University; 2019

you'll thank me for everything one day | by Rebecca Hodge | Carnegie Mellon University; 2019

Dance Light 2019 | Carnegie Mellon University; 2019

Single Ladies: A New Musical | by Kate Busatto | Carnegie Mellon University; 2018

With Liberty and Justice for All | by Emma Cordray and Ella Rosenblum | Carnegie Mellon University; 2017

Anastasia | By Terrence McNally, Lynn Ahrens, & Stephen Flaherty | Escuela JANA, Directed by Miriam Madrid; 2021-2

The Double Threat Trio: A New Musical | By Adam Overett | The Pittsburgh CLO, Directed by Scott Weinstein; 2019

Birds & Beansprouts | Book, Music, & Lyrics by Joe Young | New Musical In Development; 2019-Present

Rebel | Book & Lyrics by Olivia Wilson | New Musical In Development; 2020-1

BL!NK | Book, Music, & Lyrics by Grace Ward | New Musical In Development; 2020-1

Extra Ultra | By Kate Condé Hamilton | Carnegie Mellon University, Directed by Scott F. Davis; 2019

Marisol | By Jose Rivera | Carnegie Mellon University, Directed by Owen Stone, Dramaturg Krissy Bylancik; 2019

Detroit '67 | By Dominique Morriseau | Carnegie Mellon University, Directed by Kym Moore, Dramaturg Sydney Mayer; 2018

Bachelor of Humanities and Arts (BHA) with Honors, Directing, Dramaturgy, & Spanish | Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, PA; 2021

Advanced Directing Semester | National Theater Institute, The Eugene O'Neill Theater Center | Waterford, CN; 2020

Study Abroad | Estudio Sampere | Madrid, Spain; 2018

BXA Diploma Ceremony Speaker | Carnegie Mellon University | Spring 2021

Michael Gifford Award | Carnegie Mellon School of DramaSpring 2021

WCDAC Award | Carnegie Mellon School of Drama | Spring 2021

Phi Beta Kappa | Carnegie Mellon University | Spring 2021

Small Undergraduate Research Grant | Carnegie Mellon University | Spring 2021

Crosswalk Grant | Carnegie Mellon University | Spring 2021

BXA Capstone Grant | Carnegie Mellon University | Spring 2021

Student Internship Experience Fund | Carnegie Mellon University | Summer 2020

Study Abroad Scholarship | Carnegie Mellon University |Summer 2018

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