Emily C. A. Snyder

She is the co-founder and artistic director of a New York City theatre company, the author of the Twelve Kingdoms fantasy series, and Jane Austen parodies.

[7] In 2000, Snyder trained in John Barton's approach to Shakespeare's verse with Vivian Heilbron and Bernard Lloyd, culminating in a performance in Stratford-upon-Avon, where she portrayed Rosalind from As You Like It.

[8] In 2012, Snyder moved to New York City and founded Turn to Flesh Productions (TTF) with fellow Steubenville alumna, Michelle Kafel.

The Love and Death Trilogy consists of three plays in blank verse, combining the major Greek myths of Cupid, Aphrodite, Adonis, Persephone, Hades, Orpheus, Eurydice, and Psyche into one story.

The Love and Death Trilogy received a developmental workshop in 2018 through Turn to Flesh Productions for their fifth season celebration, directed by Snyder.

[15][16] Parenti, who played Cupid in the original New York City run in 2014, also went on to develop her early drafts of Persephone Rises and The Seduction of Adonis, including performing a scene at the Darkroom Series with Laura Hooper, reprising her role as Aphrodite.

[26] From 2006 to 2012, Snyder founded and served as Artistic Director of Gaudete Academy, a camp for adolescents and young adults to present classical work.

[31] This received two staged readings through the Sheen Center in New York City, where Snyder took one of the titular roles as Alice Ford, opposite frequent collaborator Abby Wilde as Margaret Page.

Although Snyder did not originally intend to rewrite any of Shakespeare's play, having successfully directed the show in 2008, she eventually became convinced by her collaborators to provide additional scenes and soliloquies.

[37] Reviewer Zelda Knapp wrote that "When the rhyming couplets break apart into simple and honest speech, the audience takes a collective breath and holds it.

[41] Snyder had been writing her take on the Arthur myth as early as 2017,[42] where she apparently had first been considering Tom Hiddleston for the role of Britain's most famous king.

Some notable characters include her creation of the shapeshifter, CiCi Stratos, in Once Upon A Monster of the Week, an actual play podcast from Haunted Griffin Entertainment;[45] Caitlin O'Sullivan in The Ghost Ship, an audio drama based on the Boston Metaphysical Society from Queen of Mercia Productions, created and written by Madeline Holly-Rosing;[46] and Hestren in Starfall, created and written by Claudia Elvidge.

[50] Earlier, Snyder had been interviewed by them, speaking about Cupid and Psyche and Turn to Flesh Productions on their podcast, Tales Told by A(n) HIDiot.