EMMA HORWITZ is a writer from New York City.
Her play Mary Gets Hers (New York Times Critic’s Pick, directed by Josiah Davis) was produced by the Playwrights Realm at MCC in Fall 2023. Alongside Bailey Williams, she co-created Two Sisters Find a Box of Lesbian Erotica in the Woods, which was produced in Spring 2025 with Rattlestick Theater and New Georges at HERE, following a workshop production in Winter 2024 with the Exponential Festival.
Emma was the 2024/2023 Page One Resident, and a 2022/2021 Writing Fellow with The Playwrights Realm. She is an Affiliated Artist with New Georges, where she was an Audrey Resident w/ Bailey Williams (2022), and is an alum of Clubbed Thumb’s Early-Career Writers’ Group (2022/2023). Residencies include the Eugene O’Neill’s National Playwrights Conference (Bogdonoff), the William Inge Center for the Arts, Stillwright, and Williamstown Theater Festival. Work in theater has been further supported by: The Brick, The Hearth, Mercury Store, New Georges, New York Stage and Film, New York Theater Workshop, and the Williamstown Theater Festival, among others. Winner of the 2022 Chesley/Bumbalo Playwriting Award for The Executrix.Alongside Lucas Baisch, Emma co-edited the third edition of 53rd State Press’ Occasional.
Fiction and comix have been published in print and online at Joyland Magazine, Two Serious Ladies, Vol. 1 Brooklyn's Sunday Stories, Spiral Bound, Moon Missives, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, etc.
As an educator, Emma currently serves as the Program Assistant for the Rita and Burton Goldberg Hunter MFA Playwriting Program at Hunter College, and has previously taught playwriting at Brown University, Mount Holyoke College, New York University, and the Rhode Island School of Design.
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