Praise for The Other, Other Woman
A New Play in Rhyming Couplets

Written and Directed by
Emily C. A. Snyder

Workshop Production, October 2018
El Barrio Art Space, NYC
When the rhyming couplets break apart into simple and honest speech, the audience takes a collective breath and holds it. The ache of love unexpressed and inexpressible. ~ A Work Unfinishing

Emily C. A. Snyder (Writer/Director) is obviously a genius. She has written a show with a large amount of characters all playing off of one another, and the weaving in and out of situations is handled with such aplomb that it's magic to watch. The script has incredibly complex-yet-wonderful structure, filled with great comedy, deep and meaningful drama, and a whole lot of heart. On top of which she has assembled an amazing cast who she's directed marvelously. Theater in the round is difficult, but the staging is engaging and the performances she's gotten ring true. ~ StageBuddy

What a lovely, funny, and yet delicately punched-in-the-gut kind of evening, thanks to Turn to Flesh' s production of The Other, Other Woman, by the brilliant, prolific Emily C.A. Snyder. I couldn't stop thinking about it when I got home. While it sat very clearly and comfortably as French restoration comedy, and was created through a typical process you'd witness at the Globe - I was really struck by the intense, silent "negative space" between certain actors, which made it so much richer. Something different, even. So happy I caught this one...Brilliantly done. I hope this show gets another chance to live and breathe again sometime soon. ~ Megan Greener

Praise for Cupid and Psyche
A New Play in Blank Verse

Written and Directed by
Emily C. A. Snyder

National Premiere, February 2014
The Barrow Group Theatre, NYC
"Emily C. A. Snyder writes soul-restoring, gorgeous plays." ~ Kelly Zekas, author of These Vicious Masks

"Turn To Flesh Productions certainly chose a relevant story to present for Valentine’s weekend of 2014: the myth of Cupid and Psyche... written and directed by Emily C. A. Snyder, is their very first play -- a comedy with the audacity to deconstruct that classical story." - StageBuddy, Paloma Chediak

"What happens when a god falls down to Earth and a mortal ascends to the heavens? You get one of the most enduring stories of love wrapped in a myth — Cupid and Psyche. Under the helm of playwright and artistic director Emily C.A. Snyder, the theater company re-contextualized a classic legend about Cupid’s fabled experience of the trials and agony of love...This eclectic cast of characters helped flesh out what those unfamiliar with the mythological texts would view as ancient relics, truly carrying them into the 21st century." - Off-Off Online, Jessica Taghap

"A delicious treat for the Valentine's Day weekend!" - Hi! Drama, Kristin Hardwick

Praise for In Flight
A New Play in Rhyming Couplets

Written by Jenny Lyn Bader
Directed by Jessica Bauman

National Premiere, May 2015
The Workshop Theater, NYC
"In Flight by Jenny Lyn Bader, takes place in the very modern world of an in-flight travel magazine office, and is written in rhyming couplets. Trust me, it actually works. " - ChargedFM, Natalie Sacks

"A brilliant play and a lot of fun. " - Broadway Showbiz, Corine Cohen (Mainstage 2015)

"[T]he exquisite wording [was] like a restoration comedy or Shakespeare. The poetry makes the characters and their dilemma’s jump off into full throttle.. " - Times Square Chronicles, A Play Not To Miss, Suzanna Bowling (Mainstage 2015)

"[Our heroine's] struggle to find a balance between the ethics of poetic perfection and a flawed reality, a dream versus a life lived, was elegantly placed against the office she never leaves, opting instead to send out writers to report on places she's never been." - A Work Unfinishing, Zelda Knapp

"Verse plays can surely take you to wonderful places.  [T]his charming effort from Turn to Flesh Productions...replete with a map of the world on its side, shows us that life is what we make of it." - NYTheater Now, Ed Malin

Praise for May Violets Spring
A New Story for a New Ophelia

Written by James Parenti
Directed by Emily C. A. Snyder

Revival, May 2016
The Workshop Theater, NYC
"May Violets Spring puts Ophelia front and center, showing us pieces of the Ophelia we think we know, and the Ophelia we never got a chance to meet...[T]he craft inherent in the writing of this play is high caliber and noteworthy, and I'm glad it's being given further life by Turn to Flesh Productions." ~ A Work Unfinishing, Zelda Knapp (2016)

"Through a close study of Hamlet & Shakespeare, a clever reshuffling & reassigning of monologues & speeches and the fearless addition of his own pentameters, James Parenti has essentially given us a new & unexpectedly modern play by the Bard. Its clever, inventive focus on Ophelia shines light on familiar material & breathes new life into it by providing alternate motivations.  The uniformly fine cast helps make it possible. Cristina Madero somehow speaks in iambic verse as if from birth, with a command & use that makes her Ophelia simultaneously classic & totally modern." ~ Rene Grayre, ShowScore (2016)

"A gorgeous production!  This is a fantastic script beautifully realized by the cast.  They clearly all had such a strong command of the language and I imagine that a great deal of that is due to Snyder's work with them on telling the story. Also -- it always makes me very glad to see terrific race- and gender-blind casting for the sake of having the best people fill the roles." ~ Amanda Sayle Rinzel, Dramaturg

"The direction of May Violets Spring is terrific...I was swept up in the language, the characters and plot, and found it deeply engaging, the movement graceful, the acting impassioned...[I]t was a joy being reacquainted with these characters and for dear Ophelia to have the last word for a change!" ~ Fengar Gael, Playwright

"[M]any of the lines usually given to Guildenstern and Rosencrantz are here given to Ophelia and Horatio...leading to some charming early scenes with the three buddies which almost play like John Hughes (kudos to Emily C. A. Snyder))." ~ BroadwayWorld.com, Duncan Pflaster (2014)

Praise for A Comedy of Heirors
A Companion to The Comedy of Errors

Written by Emily C. A. Snyder
Directed by Aliza Shane

Fifth Annual Staged Reading Series, September 2017
The Shakespeare Forum, NYC

Featured in:
Top 15 NYC Shows of 2017
"While this may have only been a reading and not a fully staged production, it was so freaking polished, bursting with talent, and utterly hilarious - I was crying from laughter at one point. Playwright Emily C. A. Snyder presented a sister play to Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors, one with two pairs of unbeknownst sister twins running around parallel to the shenanigans of Shakespeare's comedy, and pursued by a disgraced Malvolio who's now turned detective after his last spate with twins. This was a delightful romp that absolutely deserves a fully staged rendering (please keep Abby Wilde and Erin Keskeny in the cast)." ~ Zelda Knapp, A Work Unfinishing