Emma Horwitz

EMMA HORWITZ is a writer from New York City, who was born in the year 1992, during a cold winter month.

Emma’s plays have been supported by The Playwrights Realm (Page One Resident w/ MARY GETS HERS, 2023-2024; Writing Fellow, 2021-2022), Clubbed Thumb (Early Career Writers Group, 2022-2023), New Georges (Audrey Resident w/ Bailey Williams, 2023; Affiliated Artist), Williamstown Theater Festival (“Playwright-in-Residence” 2020), Two Headed Rep, New York Theater Workshop, The Brick, Dixon Place etc. Work in fiction and comics have been published at Joyland Magazine, Two Serious Ladies, Vol. 1 Brooklyn's Sunday Stories, Spiral Bound, Moon Missives, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, etc. Residencies include Erik Ehn’s Stillwright, Arts Letters & Numbers, and CAMP (Collaborative Arts Mobility...

EMMA HORWITZ is a writer from New York City, who was born in the year 1992, during a cold winter month.

Emma’s plays have been supported by The Playwrights Realm (Page One Resident w/ MARY GETS HERS, 2023-2024; Writing Fellow, 2021-2022), Clubbed Thumb (Early Career Writers Group, 2022-2023), New Georges (Audrey Resident w/ Bailey Williams, 2023; Affiliated Artist), Williamstown Theater Festival (“Playwright-in-Residence” 2020), Two Headed Rep, New York Theater Workshop, The Brick, Dixon Place etc. Work in fiction and comics have been published at Joyland Magazine, Two Serious Ladies, Vol. 1 Brooklyn's Sunday Stories, Spiral Bound, Moon Missives, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, etc. Residencies include Erik Ehn’s Stillwright, Arts Letters & Numbers, and CAMP (Collaborative Arts Mobility Project). Winner of the 2022 Chelsey/Bumbalo Playwriting Award for THE EXECUTRIX. Emma has taught playwriting at the Rhode Island School of Design, Brown University and Mount Holyoke College. BA: Bard College, Written Arts. MFA: Brown University.

Scripts

MARY GETS HERS

by Emma Horwitz

Synopsis

It’s the 10th century! A plague rages on in Germany! Everyone is turning into foam!

When two hermits find an orphan named Mary, they scheme a saintly rescue mission to protect her purity at any and all costs. Mary, however, has other plans for herself.

It’s the 10th century! A plague rages on in Germany! Everyone is turning into foam!

When two hermits find an orphan named Mary, they scheme a saintly rescue mission to protect her purity at any and all costs. Mary, however, has other plans for herself.

Bogdonoff

by Emma Horwitz

Synopsis

Francis and Alice walk their dogs off leash in Riverside Park. A play about dying and talking and dying to talk and talking.

Francis and Alice walk their dogs off leash in Riverside Park. A play about dying and talking and dying to talk and talking.

The Executrix

by Emma Horwitz

Synopsis

Do you ever forget what the word masturbation means? Sorry, I mean: do you ever remember what the word defenestration means? Did I say defenestration, I meant meatballs, did you pick them up from Val Salvio’s? The famous restaurant, yes, the one on Eighth with all of the sisters-in-law who you used to love back when Peter your assistant-husband was out getting cake.

Do you ever forget what the word masturbation means? Sorry, I mean: do you ever remember what the word defenestration means? Did I say defenestration, I meant meatballs, did you pick them up from Val Salvio’s? The famous restaurant, yes, the one on Eighth with all of the sisters-in-law who you used to love back when Peter your assistant-husband was out getting cake.

Untitled Babysitting Play

by Emma Horwitz

Synopsis

I answered an ad someone had emailed the school-wide listerv. I had a job catering weddings for an upscale diner in town but the season was coming to an end as winter was rolling in, and I needed cash in hand, untaxed. They said they had one daughter, and that she was very easy. That’s all they said about their one daughter, that she was easy.

I answered an ad someone had emailed the school-wide listerv. I had a job catering weddings for an upscale diner in town but the season was coming to an end as winter was rolling in, and I needed cash in hand, untaxed. They said they had one daughter, and that she was very easy. That’s all they said about their one daughter, that she was easy.

kemps

by Emma Horwitz

Synopsis

In the pine-woods of the Poconos at a sleep-away camp, where Every Girl Here Is A Winner, welcome to the last summer of your life.

Lip-syncs, line-up, Lil Miss, and that poster you were never brave enough to put up in your bedroom because your sister-twin's still scared of you. A queerbildungsroman of athletic proportions, where the ghosts of your past don’t so much haunt as demand, sucking hickies on your...

In the pine-woods of the Poconos at a sleep-away camp, where Every Girl Here Is A Winner, welcome to the last summer of your life.

Lip-syncs, line-up, Lil Miss, and that poster you were never brave enough to put up in your bedroom because your sister-twin's still scared of you. A queerbildungsroman of athletic proportions, where the ghosts of your past don’t so much haunt as demand, sucking hickies on your neck like your life depends on getting, finally, a little pleasure.

Leo at Yeshiva

by Emma Horwitz

Synopsis

A shabbos ascent into the multi-million-dollar industry of lice-picking.

Three women ferociously feed on their hairiest dreams while swimming in tubs of Pantene.

A shabbos ascent into the multi-million-dollar industry of lice-picking.

Three women ferociously feed on their hairiest dreams while swimming in tubs of Pantene.