Emily B Ditkovski

Biography

Emily is an educator, theatremaker, and arts researcher working at the intersection of the arts and social change. She holds a B.F.A. in Drama from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, an M.A. in Educational Theatre from New York University’s Steinhardt School, and an M.A. in Arts Administration from Teachers College, Columbia University.  

  She began teaching while still an undergraduate drama student at N.Y.U. which led to a career facilitating theatre for social change workshops at community sites across New York City. For twelve years she was the Director of the Williston Theatre at the Williston Northampton School, a secondary school in Western Massachusetts.  

  After relocating to Ireland in 2023 she conceived and directed Is Mise Éire Eile: I am another Ireland, a verbatim play that examines protests in Newbridge in 2023, when a local guest house was repurposed as a direct provision centre.  The production toured secondary schools in County Kildare and ten cities across Ireland. Is Mise Éire Eile was funded by the Department of Integration.  

 Emily is now a PhD student in Trinity College Dublin’s School of Education under the supervision of Dr Erika Piazzoli where she is researching the potential of youth-led theatre interventions to decrease anti-immigrant sentiment in secondary school students. She is a fervent believer in the power of theatre to transform communities and the necessity of equitable access to the arts for all.