Emily Holzman (she/her) is entering her second year at Pace University in New York City, where she studies Arts and Entertainment Management. Along with being on the administration team for Buried, she also runs a blog and Instagram page called Women Who Technical Theatre, highlighting the work women do behind the scenes for theatre throughout the country. Her previous credits also include stage managing and assistant directing on award winning productions in her home state of Massachusetts. While not working on a show, you can find her hanging out with friends, reading, or finding new places to explore. Emily has greatly enjoyed helping to bring Buried to life as an intern at Davis Shakespeare Festival, and is looking forward to sharing it with everyone!

Durham NC native, Kayla Jacobs (she/her), is currently a Junior Music Theatre and Arts Administration major at Elon University. Her most recent credits there include “Woman 2” in Songs For a New World and ensemble in Once on This Island! Kayla has enjoyed her time working with DSF this Summer, and feels blessed to have had  the opportunity to gain hands-on experience with Arts Administration. She worked along-side the playwright, Gwenny Govea, to cast the production and also assisted in dramaturgical work amongst other creative areas. Outside of the world of theatre, Kayla enjoys cooking, spending time with family, watching Scooby Doo on Netflix, and wasting way too many hours on Tik Tok. Kayla is excited to see Buried come to life, and hopes that everyone enjoys the show!

Domanique McMillan (she/her) is a senior at UNC Greensboro where she studies Arts Administration and Music. McMillan is active beyond academics through her leadership as a resident advisor, student manager for the CVPA student ambassador program, and as Vice President Ritual for the Kappa Gamma Chapter of Sigma Alpha Iota International Music Fraternity. Her future goals are to work administratively for a performing arts college or university so that she can help create a community that is conducive to artists that embraces the wide spectrum of fine arts. McMillan is excited to work with such creative minds as the community engagement coordinator in the production of “Buried” as it is based in her home state of North Carolina. She is confident that her learning experience in the DSF internship program will open opportunities for her fruitful career.

Eva Nemirovsky (she/her) is a second year at the University of California, Davis, where she studies English Literature, Russian Language and Literature, and Geology. On the side she works at her campus theatre, the Mondavi Center for Performing Arts, as a stagehand. She’s a creative soul, having written two plays as well as well as many short stories and poems. She’s currently working on her first novel while lending her creative, analytical, and organizational skills to the Davis Shakespeare Digital Internship Program.  When not sitting at her laptop writing you can find her surrounded by books, notebooks, and loose paper as she tackles her next creative project, or a new character for Dungeons and Dragons.

Shiqi Xiong (she/her) comes from China and she is a MFA Arts Leadership & Cultural Management student at the University of Connecticut. Before that, she studied Chinese Traditional dance for 20 years and earned a bachelor’s degree in art. During her undergraduate years, she and her classmates created Chinese ethnic dance works which appeared on the stage of China Central Television. She is now focusing on marketing and audience development, and her internship at DFS has enabled her to apply her expertise to theatre operations.