Emily’s work was featured in the BMI Workshop Spotlight Concert 2024.
A reading of the multi-composer song cycle at Goodspeed Musicals.
Letters To The President, a musical with a song by Emily, will receive an industry presentation in December.
Emily will sing in a developmental workshop of new musical A Wrinkle In Time at NYSAF.
Emily is an Artist Ambassador for the New York Civil Liberties Union.
Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile was the top-grossing movie musical of 2022 in cinema box offices worldwide.
University of the Arts Polyphone Festival of New Musicals presents Cherry Orchard (music, lyrics and book by Emily Gardner Xu Hall).
American Theatre Wing documentary about Polyphone Festival, where Emily will be workshopping Cherry Orchard in a few months.
Emily is acting in a workshop of Shaina Taub’s new musical SUFFS.
Emily walks the red carpet for the first time as a writer.
Rehearsal photos of Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park PublicWorks’ As You Like It by Joan Marcus.
Emily will be making her Shakespeare in the Park debut in As You Like It.
The teaser trailer for Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile is finally here!
Emily has been selected for a residency at Space on Ryder Farm.
Emily arranged and music supervised Page 73’s Spring Benefit, celebrating Barbara Whitman and their Broadway co-production, A Strange Loop.
The movie, starring Javier Bardem and Constance Wu, is slated to be released a month earlier than before.
Pop superstar Shawn Mendes has been cast in the new live action movie musical.
Emily will co-write a song with Pasek and Paul for a major motion picture live action musical.
Bedlam Theatre Company to produce a concert performance of Cherry Orchard on October 18th. Click here for more details.
Constance Wu will co-star opposite Javier Bardem.
Emily wins the 2021 Dramatists Guild Stephen Schwartz Award for Musical Theatre.
Emily’s song “Prospero the Cat” for the 24 Hr Plays! Performed by Joél Peréz (Fun Home, Kiss My Aztec!) with book by Daniel K. Isaac, music and lyrics by Emily Gardner Xu Hall.
Emily is writing a song for the 24 Hr Plays Viral Monologues: Musicals edition, in support of the Theatre Development Fund.
Emily is a resident writer in Page 73’s Interstate 73 for 2021-22.
Watch and listen to a song by Emily, an entry into Page 73’s Pandemic Time Capsule.
Emily will write a song for the new multi-composer musical “Not Working.”
Emily’s song “This One Thing Will Get You Through 2020” for the 24 Hr Plays! Performed by Brittany O’Grady (Sara Bareilles’ Little Voice, Fox’s Star) with book by Isabella Dawis and music and lyrics by Emily Gardner Xu Hall.
Emily’s song appears in Sam Sifton’s New York Times Cooking newsletter!
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