Emily Elyse Everett

Emily is a writer and actor based in Brooklyn.

She writes plays, television, films, and musicals about ordinary people caught in extraordinary moral dilemmas. With a deep tenderness and sharp wit, she explores how ambition, shame, class, and need for belonging drive people toward acts of remarkable courage or devastating consequence.

Plays include: Strange and Splendid (Frank Moffett Mosier Fellowship for Works in Heightened Language), Serenity (Semifinalist—Lanford Wilson New American Plays Festival), sorry sorry okay sorry (Valdez Theater Conference, Semifinalist — American Blues Theater Blue Ink Award), New England Summer Storms (Finalist—Emerson Stages NewFest, Finalist—Circle in the Square Theatre School Emerging Writer's Residency), The Blood (Edinburgh Fringe Festival), and The...

Emily is a writer and actor based in Brooklyn.

She writes plays, television, films, and musicals about ordinary people caught in extraordinary moral dilemmas. With a deep tenderness and sharp wit, she explores how ambition, shame, class, and need for belonging drive people toward acts of remarkable courage or devastating consequence.

Plays include: Strange and Splendid (Frank Moffett Mosier Fellowship for Works in Heightened Language), Serenity (Semifinalist—Lanford Wilson New American Plays Festival), sorry sorry okay sorry (Valdez Theater Conference, Semifinalist — American Blues Theater Blue Ink Award), New England Summer Storms (Finalist—Emerson Stages NewFest, Finalist—Circle in the Square Theatre School Emerging Writer's Residency), The Blood (Edinburgh Fringe Festival), and The Quakers (Catwalk Arts Residency, Valdez Theater Conference).

Emily is a graduate of the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theater Workshop and developing her musical The Scarlet Letter (Catwalk Arts Residency). She wrote the 5-episode serialized mystery podcast, "Process" (Austin Film Festival—Second Rounder), which will be released in 2026.

Originally from Portland, Oregon, Emily has a BA in Playwriting from Brown University and an MFA in Playwriting from Columbia University.

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Scripts

sorry sorry okay sorry

by Emily Elyse Everett

14
Cast Size
3
Genre
dark comedy

90 minutes. Clementine is desperately trying to do the right thing. Clancy is desperately trying to make it through another day as her life falls apart. David is desperately trying to win the Phoenix Division of the World Mind of a Warrior Conference, a celebration of Skill, Artistry, Dedication, and Grit for all those who practice The Way.

A play about the funny things that happen in our saddest moments, the...

90 minutes. Clementine is desperately trying to do the right thing. Clancy is desperately trying to make it through another day as her life falls apart. David is desperately trying to win the Phoenix Division of the World Mind of a Warrior Conference, a celebration of Skill, Artistry, Dedication, and Grit for all those who practice The Way.

A play about the funny things that happen in our saddest moments, the sad things that happen in our happiest moments, and also, about competitive meditation.. (Previously titled: "Tryhard" for the Valdez Theatre Conference).

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New England Summer Storms

by Emily Elyse Everett

1
Cast Size
8
Genre
adaptation,
dark comedy,
drama,
tragedy

2 hrs with intermission. Hazel Green, now Hazel Tarlow, marries her rich classmate from college—and all of their friends think they know why she did it. A story of obsession, ambition, addiction, and greed, of choosing between what you want and what you need, and of what it takes to have power in America. Loose retelling of Ibsen's "Hedda Gabler". ​

2 hrs with intermission. Hazel Green, now Hazel Tarlow, marries her rich classmate from college—and all of their friends think they know why she did it. A story of obsession, ambition, addiction, and greed, of choosing between what you want and what you need, and of what it takes to have power in America. Loose retelling of Ibsen's "Hedda Gabler". ​

Serenity

by Emily Elyse Everett

4
Cast Size
4
Genre
dark comedy,
drama

90 minutes. Four students at Sacred Heart Academy for Girls tangle themselves in their fears, obsessions, identities, and faiths as they battle for a place on the coveted Sacred Heart Church Counsel. 

90 minutes. Four students at Sacred Heart Academy for Girls tangle themselves in their fears, obsessions, identities, and faiths as they battle for a place on the coveted Sacred Heart Church Counsel. 

Strange and Splendid

by Emily Elyse Everett

1
Cast Size
6—50
Genre
experimental,
fable/folktale,
movement/physical,
verse

75-90 minutes. A girl falls in love. The gods get jealous and steal the lover away. The girl journeys to get her lover back. Largely in verse.

WINNER: 2022 Frank Moffett Mosier Fellowship for Works in Heightened Language ($3000 prize + workshop)

75-90 minutes. A girl falls in love. The gods get jealous and steal the lover away. The girl journeys to get her lover back. Largely in verse.

WINNER: 2022 Frank Moffett Mosier Fellowship for Works in Heightened Language ($3000 prize + workshop)

-1, 0, 1

by Emily Elyse Everett

3
Cast Size
3
Genre
dark comedy

10 minutes. How different is the version of you just one reality over from this one? A perfectly normal teenager is visited by a slightly different perfectly normal teenager, from one reality over. They're both visited by a slightly different slightly different perfectly normal teenager from one reality over in the other direction.

10 minutes. How different is the version of you just one reality over from this one? A perfectly normal teenager is visited by a slightly different perfectly normal teenager, from one reality over. They're both visited by a slightly different slightly different perfectly normal teenager from one reality over in the other direction.

We're In Prison

by Emily Elyse Everett

3
Cast Size
2
Genre
comedy,
experimental,
movement/physical

10 minutes. A prisoner knows that he's performing in front of an audience, but can't figure out why he can only say what's been written down in the script. A guard knows that there's a script, but doesn't see the audience in front of him. Huh??

10 minutes. A prisoner knows that he's performing in front of an audience, but can't figure out why he can only say what's been written down in the script. A guard knows that there's a script, but doesn't see the audience in front of him. Huh??

War Story

by Emily Elyse Everett

1
Cast Size
2
Genre
drama,
political

10 minutes. Two children find a hairpin that is illegal to possess. Two lovers wake up the night before the draft. Two generals decide where to attack next. A hairpin is discovered again.

10 minutes. Two children find a hairpin that is illegal to possess. Two lovers wake up the night before the draft. Two generals decide where to attack next. A hairpin is discovered again.

Sappington! [or] The Lamentations and Tribulations of Butlerhood

by Emily Elyse Everett

1
Cast Size
7—12
Genre
comedy,
farce,
period

45-60 minutes. Barnabus Sappington used to be a butler, and Barnabus Sappington is in therapy. His therapist, Dr. Robinson, isn't very good at his job, but is very good at interrupting his client's stories. We piece together Sappington's past and meet the many previous families he worked for, including a murderous 8 year old, a group of retired Broadway actresses, and an expat from Spain escaping the law.

45-60 minutes. Barnabus Sappington used to be a butler, and Barnabus Sappington is in therapy. His therapist, Dr. Robinson, isn't very good at his job, but is very good at interrupting his client's stories. We piece together Sappington's past and meet the many previous families he worked for, including a murderous 8 year old, a group of retired Broadway actresses, and an expat from Spain escaping the law.