Emily Finn’s playwrighting journey began out of peer pressure. As an actor, director, and monologue repertorialist, she often had long conversations with up-and-coming playwrights, only to be met with the question, “What are you writing currently?” Finally, she decided to have a real answer to that question.
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They are a long-time reader, short-time playwright, based in New York City. Her work, influenced by the likes of Paula Vogel, Lynn Nottage, and Haley Jacobsen, offers a distinct perspective on issues of class, community, gender, and queerness. The blend of humor with the depth of human experience gives her plays an accessible yet meaningful quality, balancing the weight of these big themes.
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Emily is most interested in where the individual meets the political. She loves to look at larger systemic structures and focus on the people living day to day within these circumstances. Emily writes the way they experience life, with a lot of humor to ease the expansiveness of the human experience.
Audiences have described their writing as “youthful, truthful, and vivid” and “deeply impactful and incredibly kind.” Her work has also been compared to BoJack Horseman, Twin Peaks, Shameless, and the Life is Strange games.
In the Air - First Reading August 2024
In the Air
IN THE AIR IS EMILY FINN'S PLAYWRITING DEBUT.
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IN A TINY TOWN OFF THE END OF ROUTE 11, ELLIE, A WAITRESS AT A LOCAL CHAIN RESTAURANT, IS STUCK WITH NO MEMORY FROM BEFORE HER BROTHER’S PASSING. BUT WHEN A WOMAN COMES TO TOWN TRYING TO OPEN A LOCAL GALLERY, ELLIE FINDS HERSELF RELIVING ALL HER FORGOTTEN MEMORIES, WHETHER SHE’D LIKE TO OR NOT.
A DRAMATIC COMEDY ABOUT COMMUNITY, FAMILY, AND MOVING THROUGH GRIEF, IN THE AIR EXPLORES OUR RELATIONSHIP TO ART, OUR LOVED ONES, AND OURSELVES.
WHAT AUDIENCES ARE SAYING ABOUT IN THE AIR:
"YOUTHFUL, TRUTHFUL AND VIVID"
"A KIND-HEARTED AND THOUGHTFUL NEXT TO NORMAL"
"THE HUMOR, DEVASTATION, AND HONESTY OF BOJACK HORSEMAN IF IT WAS SET IN RURAL OHIO"
“IF THE NEXT INSTALLMENT OF LIFE IS STRANGE WAS A STAGE PLAY"
"A STRANGE LOVE LETTER TO OUR SHITTY LITTLE HOMETOWN"