About the artist

Emma Platt is a playwright, director, and actor from Rhode Island. She is receiving her BA in Film/Media/Theater and English from Mount Holyoke College. She has been acting since she was five, directing since she was fourteen, and writing plays for as long as she can remember.
She has written plays for Trinity Rep’s YASI Players and One-Act, and Moses Brown. Directing credits include Melancholy Play, The Home for Retired Canadian Girlfriends, The Man in a Case, Rose & Iris, and Eurydice, among others. A self-directed staged reading of her play LOCUSTS will be mounted at Mount Holyoke in May 2026.

4 girls who grew up

emma platt

CATEGORY:
Theatre

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DESCRIPTION OF PIECE:

In this play, four familiar female characters discuss girlhood, childhood trauma, and how it has shaped them today. They reckon with their experiences in fantasy worlds, delving into girlhood, trauma, gender-based violence, and women’s solidarity, and dealing with the men who have called them into the same room at the same time years later for unknown reasons despite being strangers.
How does trauma shape women? Do they grow up too fast? At a normal pace? Do they grow up at all? This play shows that it depends, as all four women reacted to their fantastical but deeply human experiences in very different ways from one another.
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This one-act play won third prize in the Five College Consortium’s Denis Johnston Playwriting Prize and is being put on its feet for the very first time by a cast including Rhode Island actors Tanya Anderson Martin, Dave Rabinow, Kelly Seigh, and Tali Russell, as well as Boston-based actor Ace MacIntyre.