Day is one woman’s deeply funny journey through traumatic grief, chronic illness and the untamable joy discovered while she huddled in the darkest recesses of her worst nightmares. Through clowning, storytelling, archival recordings and family interviews, Emma Yarbrough crafts a moving offering to the memory of her Aunt Day, her familial soulmate who she lost to a shocking act of violence, all while coping with her own life-changing health diagnosis and the legacy she shares with Day—a family curse/blessing of exceptionality, of laughing through tears at the absurdity and breathtaking beauty of it all.

Creating new plays takes time, open hearts, and dedicated space to nurture ideas. It takes a commitment to investing in artists and helping to discover and grow new voices. And it demands resources focused on process, artistic exploration, and room to risk. Our Stripped Bare Arts Incubator Project provides research and development time to at least four new projects per season – bolstering new artists, forms, and voices. A Stripped Bare project is not about sets, lights, props, and costumes. It is about actors, words, passion, movement, and ideas.

Learn more about Stripped Bare Arts Incubator Project HERE.

Emma Yarbrough is a storyteller, immersive theater-maker and clown from Eufaula, Alabama. Emma studied theater at Emory University and trained in physical theater and clowning at the Accademia dell’Arte in Arezzo, Italy. Emma has performed with Out of Hand Theatre, the Object Group, 7 Stages, and Theater Emory and presented original work at the Center for Puppetry Arts, Barn Arts Theater in Tremont, Maine, and Deer Bear Wolf’s immersive Transgression series. In addition to her work in theater, Emma serves as a senior producer for the international storytelling organization the Story Collider.