Emma Horwitz

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...
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.

Plays

  • MARY GETS HERS by Emma Horwitz
    Recommendations: 2
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    Genre: adaptation, adventure + 7 more
    Genre: adaptation, adventure, comedy, dark comedy, drama, period, political, satire, tragedy
    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
    Recommendations: 1
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    4
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy + 2 more
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    Keyword: dogs, women + 7 more
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy, drama, mystery/thriller
    Keyword: dogs, women, walking, Jewish, parks, death, Brazil, Nazis, puppetry
    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
    Recommendations: 1
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    4
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy + 11 more
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy, drama, experimental, fantasy, farce, horror, melodrama, mystery/thriller, period, romantic comedy, satire, tragedy
    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
    Recommendations: 6
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    Genre: dark comedy, drama + 5 more
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    Keyword: babysitting, economy + 7 more
    Genre: dark comedy, drama, horror, immersive, mystery/thriller, political, tragedy
    Keyword: babysitting, economy, queer, job, student, mother, father, pizza boy, erotic thriller
    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
    Recommendations: 1
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    Genre: adventure, comedy + 5 more
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    Keyword: Summer Camp, ghost story + 5 more
    Genre: adventure, comedy, drama, experimental, movement/physical, musical, mystery/thriller
    Keyword: Summer Camp, ghost story, queer, Jewish, ensemble, musical, absurd
    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...
    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
    Recommendations: 2
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    3
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    Genre: comedy, drama + 1 more
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    Keyword: lice, Jewish + 5 more
    Genre: comedy, drama, experimental
    Keyword: lice, Jewish, religion, shabbat, erotic, hair, work
    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.