I Interview Playwrights Part 170: Emily DeVoti

Emily DeVoti

Hometown: Sheffield, Massachusetts

Current Town: Brooklyn, NY



Q:  Tell me please about your play currently running at New Georges.


A:  It runs through May 22nd!  The play is called MILK, and it's set on a dairy farm in rural Massachusetts in 1984, on the cusp of Reagan's second election.  It's about a couple about to lose their family farm, when a wealthy NYC businessman offers them an obscene amount of money for the right to bring his family there and "teach them values."  It's a...