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HOW WE CAME TO BE
June of 2020, Emma Boles decided to host the Virtual Unfinished Works Festival thanks to the push from her roommate, Lily Cate Gunther-Canada. And One Egg No Batter was born. With the mission statement "Theatre for Social Justice and the Human Condition."
Started with the Virtual Unfinished Works Festival, producing 11 new works with actors, directors, playwrights, and stage managers all around the world. Then we produced A Midsummer Night's Dream with again a production team and cast all around the world.
In 2021, we have so far produced two 24-hour play festivals: Plays for Today and Plays for Today: March Madness and had the world premiere of I Name You by Rebecca Kane. After that came the reading of Mykai Eastman's new play LoveJoy and the world premiere of Leah Roth Barsanti's Women Who Hate Their Jobs.
EMMA BOLES
Executive Director
Emma Boles is entering her senior year at Loyola University Chicago as an Advertising and PR major with a minor in Theatre and Non-Profit Management. She has been involved with theatre since she was seven years old when her father put her in a theatre class that was offered in her summer camp. She joined the International Thespian Society (ITS) her freshman year of high school and served on her high school's ITS executive board for two years. She has worked as a teaching artist at the Orlando Rep where she has directed and choreographed. She served as Production Manager of OENB's A Midsummer Night's Dream and Women Who Hate Their Jobs, Producer of both Plays for Today Festivals and I Name You, and Director for Wolf in a Concrete Jungle.
JESSICA HAMMOND
Artistic Director
Jessica Hammond is a current student at Valencia College studying theatre. she started with One Egg No Batter Productions summer of 2020 and was a part of the Virtual Unfinished Works Festival every week, Static (Amy/Officer 2), Glorieta (Sarah Pitts), A House Call (The Evaluator), and Wolf in a Concrete Jungle (Rowen Wilson). She was awarded Festival Favorite Supporting Actress for her performance in Glorieta and Festival MVP for being involved in the most readings in the festival. She then went on to perform in One Egg No Batter’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Hippolyta) and I Name You (Sophia).