Emily Breeze is a playwright and screenwriter based on the east coast; her plays include Mother Says She’s Shocked Her Children Are Upset (Part 5), Pigskin, No She’s Like a Genius, They Died from Their Wounds, and Are The Bennet Girls OK?, a NYT Critic's Pick and Drama Desk Award Nominee. As an assistant to Tony Kushner, her first film credit was on Steven Spielberg’s West Side Story. Her debut short film, Shallow Water, premiered in 2023 at the Phoenix Film Festival, and was screened at the Ridgefield Independent Film Festival, the Roze Filmdagen, and the Bridgeport Film Festival among others. Other short films include DEAD DOG I-III, Clowns, and Natasha. Awards include the 2020/21 GreenStage Live Arts Artist Award for her play The Homewrecker (co-written with Maria DiFabbio), the 2021 Rising Artist Award for her play Hallmark, and the 2026 Ithaca New Voices Literary Festival Playwright of the Year Award. Residencies include Millay Arts, the Writer's Colony at Dairy Hollow, Long Wharf Theatre Artistic Residency, and the 2022/23 Playwright-in-Residence for The Bechdel Group. She recently earned her MFA in playwriting at Yale University ('26), BA Vassar College.
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Representation: 
Theatre
Lizzy Weingold | WME
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Film & TV
Olivia Burgher | WME
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