The Pie Gallery!
Making and sharing pies is one of my favorite hobbies, and I would be remiss not to include it on this website! I make a pie almost every week, taking flavor requests from whoever I’m baking for and sometimes inventing new recipes myself. I bring these pies to gatherings, classes, and rehearsals, or just give them to whoever in my life seems like they could use something sweet. I love pie because it’s versatile and shareable – there are so many different kinds out there, everyone is bound to find a pie they can gather together and enjoy! Take a look at some of the pies I’ve made in the gallery below.
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Dutch Peach Pie at the WALTER office, posing with the July 2022 issue. I’ll bring pie to your office too if you hire me 😉
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Mini mango pies in a gingersnap crust.
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Keith Haring Cherry pie!
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Pie Hulud – a pair of mini cinnamon/cayenne spiced pies that look like the giant sandworms from Dune!
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Double Dark Chocolate Raspberry Cream pie.
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Maple Cream Pie! You can read an essay I wrote about this pie in the “personal essays” tab.
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Almond Custard pie
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Raspberry Cream Pie
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A Plum/Cardamom/Walnut Mini Pie. This was the first pie I freehanded without a recipe!
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My personal favorite pie to make and eat – Richard Sax’s Claremont Diner Coconut Cream Pie.
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Hazelnut Chocolate Meringue Pie – another recipe I invented.
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A Classic Double-Crust Apple Pie.
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Grasshopper Pie – a frozen mint/chocolate pie.
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Maple Buttermilk Pie
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Blueberry Sour Cream Pie with walnuts and streusel – this one is a crowd pleaser that fruit pie fans and cream pie fans can both get behind.
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Black Forest pie
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A Pecan Pie that I made for my coworkers at WIT.
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Apple Cider Donut Pie – one of my original recipes!
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Coffee Chiffon Pie in a chocolate pastry crust.
My Playwriting Debut: Rivka’s Reading Rainbow!
This Winter, a play that I wrote was produced for the very first time! Rivka’s Reading Rainbow! is the story of a young librarian trying to save her library’s Miscellaneous Books Department from dissolution. It explores the tenuous connections between purpose and meaning, and questions the way we assign value (or don’t) to the things that populate our lives.
This production was a Studiolab project supported by the Dartmouth College Department of Theater, fearlessly led and directed by Alex Bramsen. It starred Amara Jones-Myers and August Guszkowski, who wore costumes designed by Lila Hovey and played on a stage lit by Evan Schafer and brilliantly managed by Alex Gavitt and Caileigh Dowell. Every person who worked on this play brought something brilliant and new to the script; I am so proud of them, and proud to have contributed a piece to this magical whole.
If you’d like to watch a video of this performance or read the script, please contact me directly! I would be so happy to share this work with you!
Recently Onstage: Jo & Laurie
In Summer 2021, I was extremely fortunate to have been in the world premiere of James Holod Kennedy’s play Jo & Laurie. This production was entirely student-produced by a small company of 7 with a generous grant from the Robert Dance ’77 Arts Initiative. Everyone in the company truly loved the script, and their passion combined with the trust we all had in each other made for an explosion of love and unrestricted creativity. The lessons I learned from working directly with James, applying for grants and coordinating production schedules, and taking on my first two-hander as a performer made this one of the most educational theatre experiences I’ve ever had, and the people I created it with made it the most joyful. We recorded and livestreamed the production, so you can even watch our opening show in full!
The Company:
Playwright – James Holod Kennedy
Director – Katie Devin Orenstein
Jo – Emma Ginsberg (me!)
Laurie – Isaiah Brown
Costume designer/stage manager – Lila Hovey
Set/sound designer – Piper Hill
Livestream Crew – Isaac Feldman & Vania Ding