As a playwright, Emily’s work has been presented in New York City by Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, Primary Stages, Stable Cable, and Gi60; and regionally at Great Plains Theater Conference, Capital Fringe, foolsFURY Factory Parts, and Rhinofest. She was a Heideman Award finalist, and New York Innovative Theater Award nominee for Best Original Full Length Script. Her recent production credits include A Beautiful Day in the Garden of Eden at the Sam French Off Off Broadway One-Act Festival, and #yourmemorial, which was nominated for a 2019 NYIT Award for Best Original Full-Length Script, and was produced by Pigeonholed at the HERE Arts Center. She was part of the inaugural Speakers’ Corner at Gingold Theatrical, and is a member of Middle Voice at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater.

Her screenwriting credits include the film short ‘In Case We Get Found’ (winner at NYMA, Flow Festival, Frostbite International, Hollywood Gold, & Couch Film Festival); pilot ‘Sox News’ with Martian Media (Best Writing at ITVF 2015); and digital series ‘SPARKLE: A Don Quixote Story’ with InstaMiniSeries. She also wrote for the audio series ‘MTA: Ride or Die with Rattlestick Playwrights Theater.’

As a producer, Emily works on a range of mediums and platforms. She is currently a producer for Our Body Politic, a nationally-syndicated radio show and podcast that centers women of color in politics and civic life.

Emily earned her BA at Johns Hopkins University as a Bloomberg Scholar, where she won the Richard Macksey Award for excellence in the humanities. She recently graduated from The New School for Drama with her MFA in Playwriting, under the direction of Lucy Thurber and Todd London. She also loves long walks on the beach, but who doesn’t?