Emily Breeze

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), Whore and Wife, No She’s Like a Genius, They Died from Their Wounds, and Are The Bennet Girls OK?, a NYT Critic's Pick. 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. Awards include the 2020/21 GreenStage Live Arts Artist Award for her play The Homewrecker (co-written with Marialena DiFabbio), and the 2021 Rising Artist Award for her play Hallmark. Residencies include Millay Arts, the Writer's Colony at Dairy Hollow, Long Wharf Theatre Artistic Residency, and the 2022/23...

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), Whore and Wife, No She’s Like a Genius, They Died from Their Wounds, and Are The Bennet Girls OK?, a NYT Critic's Pick. 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. Awards include the 2020/21 GreenStage Live Arts Artist Award for her play The Homewrecker (co-written with Marialena DiFabbio), and the 2021 Rising Artist Award for her play Hallmark. 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 is currently pursuing her MFA in playwriting at Yale University ('26). BA Vassar College.
Representation:
Lizzy Weingold | WME
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Scripts

ARE THE BENNET GIRLS OK?

by Emily Breeze

1
Cast Size
8—9
Genre
adaptation,
comedy,
dark comedy,
period,
romantic comedy

A new adaptation of Jane Austen's Pride & Prejudice, from the perspective of the sisters. Currently being produced at Bedlam Fall 2025.

A new adaptation of Jane Austen's Pride & Prejudice, from the perspective of the sisters. Currently being produced at Bedlam Fall 2025.

THE CARE AND KEEPING OF YOU PAGES 76-77

by Emily Breeze

Cast Size
6—7
Genre
comedy,
dark comedy,
drama,
tragedy

It's all-girls sleepaway summer camp and something disturbing is coming for each of the girls. Part deep-dive into pubescent girlhood, part mystery, part searing truth.

It's all-girls sleepaway summer camp and something disturbing is coming for each of the girls. Part deep-dive into pubescent girlhood, part mystery, part searing truth.

WHORE AND WIFE

by Emily Breeze

Cast Size
5—6
Genre
dark comedy,
farce,
period

A farcical restoration-style comedy look at a brothel during wartime, two pairs of lovers kept apart, and an incredibly horny priest.

A farcical restoration-style comedy look at a brothel during wartime, two pairs of lovers kept apart, and an incredibly horny priest.

THEY DIED FROM THEIR WOUNDS

by Emily Breeze

Cast Size
8—20
Genre
comedy,
dark comedy,
docudrama/historic,
drama,
period

It's 1120 AD and there's been a horrible accident/disaster/maybe sabotage? Probably not. But The White Ship has sunk, the heir to the throne is dead and anarchy is coming for the people. An ensemble look at how large political systems impact and fracture individuals.

It's 1120 AD and there's been a horrible accident/disaster/maybe sabotage? Probably not. But The White Ship has sunk, the heir to the throne is dead and anarchy is coming for the people. An ensemble look at how large political systems impact and fracture individuals.

THAT'S NOT WHAT HAPPENED

by Emily Breeze

Cast Size
4
Genre
dark comedy

A lesbian homebirth goes off the rails as questions of selfishness, sex, and motherhood collide.

A lesbian homebirth goes off the rails as questions of selfishness, sex, and motherhood collide.

PRE-OMEGA-POINT

by Emily Breeze

Cast Size
8
Genre
comedy,
dark comedy,
docudrama/historic,
drama,
political

Based on a true story of scientific exploration/theatre cult gone wrong, this play explores the human strains induced by the hubris of artists.

Based on a true story of scientific exploration/theatre cult gone wrong, this play explores the human strains induced by the hubris of artists.

MOTHER SAYS SHE'S SHOCKED HER CHILDREN ARE UPSET (PART 5)

by Emily Breeze

Cast Size
9—20
Genre
adaptation,
comedy,
dark comedy,
experimental,
movement/physical,
political,
tragedy

Things are weird in Thebes. There’s a book or maybe a podcast or maybe a TedTalk that’s been
going around telling women they need to recalibrate. Dr. Phil keeps leaping out of the TV screen
to help solve (or induce) familial trauma, and two sisters find themselves pulled away from their
palace and maternal duties into the woods. The longer they’re there, the hungrier they get.

Things are weird in Thebes. There’s a book or maybe a podcast or maybe a TedTalk that’s been
going around telling women they need to recalibrate. Dr. Phil keeps leaping out of the TV screen
to help solve (or induce) familial trauma, and two sisters find themselves pulled away from their
palace and maternal duties into the woods. The longer they’re there, the hungrier they get.

YOU OWE ME YOUR BONES

by Emily Breeze

Cast Size
5—17
Genre
adaptation,
dark comedy,
drama,
experimental,
fable/folktale,
fantasy,
horror,
political,
tragedy

Something weird is happening at Heartland Behavioral Health Center, or it's not and Lois is just going crazy because that's what people at behavioral health centers tend to do over Fourth of July weekend. Between between her ward-mates, the nurses who seem to switch names at random, and the TV that keeps telling her about an impending heat wave, Lois is having a hard time improving. Maybe she needs to calm down...

Something weird is happening at Heartland Behavioral Health Center, or it's not and Lois is just going crazy because that's what people at behavioral health centers tend to do over Fourth of July weekend. Between between her ward-mates, the nurses who seem to switch names at random, and the TV that keeps telling her about an impending heat wave, Lois is having a hard time improving. Maybe she needs to calm down. 

Commissioned by CalArts for Edinburgh 2020.

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ALL MY DEAD UNCLES

by Emily Breeze

1
Cast Size
1—2
Genre
biography,
comedy,
dark comedy,
drama,
tragedy

ALL MY DEAD UNCLES is a narcissistic nepotic self-effacing deep-diving long-winded political/familial/parodical cathartic comi-tragic backstory of one woman’s collection of dead uncles. There are run-on sentences. There are jokes. There is also a minor amount of theatrical magic, but mostly it’s a queer woman explaining how all of her uncles died in less than an hour.

ALL MY DEAD UNCLES is a narcissistic nepotic self-effacing deep-diving long-winded political/familial/parodical cathartic comi-tragic backstory of one woman’s collection of dead uncles. There are run-on sentences. There are jokes. There is also a minor amount of theatrical magic, but mostly it’s a queer woman explaining how all of her uncles died in less than an hour.

TITLE NINE

by Emily Breeze

Cast Size
7
Genre
adaptation,
dark comedy,
drama,
political,
tragedy

Fall 2013, toxic queer friendships cause catastrophe on a collegiate rugby team. TITLE NINE is still in the process of being developed.

Fall 2013, toxic queer friendships cause catastrophe on a collegiate rugby team. TITLE NINE is still in the process of being developed.

CALL YOUR AUNT BOBBI, PLEASE

by Emily Breeze

1
Cast Size
1
Genre
dark comedy

A short zoom monologue, written for Deirdre Lovejoy as part of The 24 Hour Plays. An aunt goes off and can't get back on track.

A short zoom monologue, written for Deirdre Lovejoy as part of The 24 Hour Plays. An aunt goes off and can't get back on track.