Emma Horwitz

Emma Horwitz is a writer of plays, fiction, and zines from New York City.

Recent productions include Two Sisters Find a Box of Lesbian Erotica in the Woods (written & performed w/ Bailey Williams, dir. Tara Elliott, with Rattlestick Theater and New Georges, March-May 2025; with The Exponential Festival in collaboration with New Georges, January 2024) and Mary Gets Hers (dir. Josiah Davis, with The Playwrights Realm, September-October 2023.) With The Playwrights Realm, Emma was the 2024/2023 Page One Resident, and a 2022/2021 Writing Fellow. She has further developed work in theater with the O’Neill National Playwrights Conference (Bogdonoff, 2024), the William Inge Center for the Arts, Stillwright, Mercury Store, The Brick, and the Williamstown Theater Festival, among others. Audrey...

Emma Horwitz is a writer of plays, fiction, and zines from New York City.

Recent productions include Two Sisters Find a Box of Lesbian Erotica in the Woods (written & performed w/ Bailey Williams, dir. Tara Elliott, with Rattlestick Theater and New Georges, March-May 2025; with The Exponential Festival in collaboration with New Georges, January 2024) and Mary Gets Hers (dir. Josiah Davis, with The Playwrights Realm, September-October 2023.) With The Playwrights Realm, Emma was the 2024/2023 Page One Resident, and a 2022/2021 Writing Fellow. She has further developed work in theater with the O’Neill National Playwrights Conference (Bogdonoff, 2024), the William Inge Center for the Arts, Stillwright, Mercury Store, The Brick, and the Williamstown Theater Festival, among others. Audrey Resident (2022 w/ Bailey Williams) and Affiliated Artist with New Georges. Alum of Clubbed Thumb’s Early-Career Writers’ Group (2023/2022). Winner of the 2022 Chesley/Bumbalo Playwriting Award for The Executrix. With Lucas Basich, Emma co-edited 53rd State Press’ The Occasional No. 3. MFA: Brown University. For more: emmahorwitz.com.

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.