Emily Crochetiere (Associate Lighting Designer) is a BFA Theatre Design/Technology student at Emerson College. Past associate design credits include Cloud 9 for Emerson Stage and Much Ado About Nothing for Emerson Shakespeare Society.  This is her first time working with The Nora, and she is thrilled to be on board.

Eric Levenson designed scenery for The Nora’s World Premiere of Silver Spoon in 2011.  He designed scenery and lighting for the inaugural productions at Central Square Theater, QED and Coming Up for Air, and has designed sets for The Nora productions of Not Enough Air, The Seahorse, Dublin Carol, Smelling a Rat, Stop Kiss, Equus, Orphans, Loot, 3 By Chekhov, and the Elliot Norton Award winning production of Death of a Salesman. Recent designs include Passing Strange at New Rep; and The Motherf**ker With the Hat, Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, Next to Normal, Blackbird, and Nine at SpeakEasy Stage. Eric is a Technical Instructor in the MIT Theatre Department and an All-Categories member of United Scenic Artists Local 829.

Sarah Treem, born in Boston, is the only writer to have written and produced all three seasons of the acclaimed HBO series, In Treatment, for which she won a Writer’s Guild of America award and was nominated for a Humanitas award. She is also a writer/producer for the Mark Wahlberg/Stephen Levinson produced HBO series, How To Make It In America, and is currently adapting Samantha Peale’s novel, The American Painter Emma Dial, for HBO with Philip Seymour Hoffman and Emily Ziff. In addition to The How and the Why, her full-length plays include Empty Sky; Against the Wall; Mirror, Mirror; A Feminine Ending; and Human Voices. Ms. Treem has been in residence at The Sundance Institute, The Ojai Playwriting Conference, The Screenwriters Colony, and the Yaddo Artists’ Colony. She has been commissioned by South Coast Repertory and Playwrights Horizons, and has been a Lark Playwrights’ Workshop fellow. Ms. Treem has taught playwriting at Yale University, where she earned her BA and MFA.