Emily Chadick Weiss is a member playwright at The Ensemble Studio Theater and was a member of their playwriting group for emerging writers, Youngblood. She is a five-time Ensemble Studio Theatre/Alfred P. Sloan Science and Technology Grant recipient. John Lithgow and Steven Boyer star in her radio podcast play IF YOU WIN produced by Playing on Air. Her play, THE FORK, was produced in The Ensemble Studio Theatre’s MARATHON and was a New York Times Critic’s Pick then got a shout out in The New York Times for stepping up to meet the Trump Era. Emily is a graduate of Northwestern University and a winner of the Young Playwrights Inc. National Playwriting Contest. Her play, THE LAST PARTY, is published by Applause Theatre & Cinema Books and GHOSTED is published in The Best Women’s Monologues from New Plays 2020. Emily’s piece on Wendy Wasserstein’s The Heidi Chronicles, “Women, Where are We Going” is published in The Dramatist Magazine. She has written for the PBS Kids show Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood, and created the web series The Share featuring William Jackson Harper. Emily was a speechwriter for Shahana Hanif, the winning Democratic City Council Candidate for Brooklyn’s District 39.
CONTACT: EmilyCWeiss@gmail.com
