Amanda Katie Glassman and Claudio Emma were married Sept. 1 at the bride’s family home in Dorset, Vt. William D. Cohen, a Superior Court judge in Vermont and a friend of the couple, led a ceremony incorporating Jewish and Roman Catholic elements.
The bride, 30, is a screenwriter and playwright. Her play, “The Wedding Affair,” ran in June at Edward Albee’s Last Frontier Theater Conference in Valdez, Alaska. She graduated from Yale and received a Master of Fine Arts in playwrighting from the University of Oxford in Oxfordshire, England.
She is the daughter of Mary A. Glassman and Andrew C. Glassman of Simsbury, Conn. The bride’s father is a partner in Pullman and Comley, a law firm in Hartford. Her mother served as first selectman of Simsbury from 1991-99, and again from 2007-14.
The groom, 29, is an accelerator physicist at SLAC National Lab at Stanford. He graduated from King’s College London. He also received a Master of Science degree from Imperial College, also in London, and a Ph.D. in physics from U.C.L.A.
He is a son of Aurora Onorati and Franco Emma of Bernalda, Italy. The groom’s mother teaches the Italian language at Istituto Comprensivo Marconi in Bernalda. His father retired as a rocket scientist for the European Space Agency in Rome and Paris.
The couple met in Los Angeles in 2014 while attending two separate birthday parties being held at the same location.
