More About Emma

I’ve been moving at a million miles per hour since I was a kid. I was the child who signed up for everything - ballet, voice lessons, piano, soccer, tennis. If there was an extracurricular within a five-mile radius, I probably tried it. Performing felt less like a hobby and more like a natural state of being.

Some of my earliest memories are running around the set of Diagnosis: Murder, where my dad worked, watching Dick Van Dyke rehearse scenes with the kind of joy and craft that makes you realize storytelling is both play and discipline. Being on that set felt like stepping into another world - one where imagination was taken seriously.

That was the beginning. I fell in love with performing. I became a lifelong musical theatre nerd. And I started writing - filling notebooks with stories that needed somewhere to live outside my head.

In 2021, when my father passed away, storytelling became something more urgent. I stepped into producing to bring to life a proof of concept for the final script he wrote before he died, Runaways. What began as a deeply personal project became a turning point: I realized how much I loved helping other artists build the worlds living inside their imaginations.

At my core, I’m an artist who believes in artists. Most recently, I served as a Junior Executive at Billy Magnussen’s production company, HappyBad Bungalow, working across development and production while continuing to pursue my own independent work as a producer, actor, and writer.

When I’m not making films, I occasionally write about the hospitality world that shaped me. My essays have appeared in Grub Street / New York Magazine, including a piece on the new economics of tipping in New York restaurants and a Grub Street Diet feature documenting a day in the life of a theatre nerd working restaurant service.

Here are a few projects currently in orbit (bullet points are more accessible, after all):

• If you like RomComDrams, then I’m your gal. Ask me about my feature And Yet. I’m thrilled to have the brilliant Nora Fiffer attached to direct, and we’re currently looking for producing partners to help bring it to life.

• Wait To Tell Mother, my directorial debut, premiered at Dances With Films: New York in December 2024. The film has since screened at 18 festivals and counting, winning seven awards including Best Emerging Filmmaker and Outstanding Film (Drama).

• I’m currently developing several independent producing projects, including We’re Not Good People, written by Elizabeth Burch-Hudson, which we recently submitted to the Sundance Producers Lab.

• Sunshine Girls, a feature in which I co-star, premiered at Defy Film Festival in August 2025 and continues its festival run.

• We also recently wrapped production on the first season of The Normal MFers, an animated series where I voice the lead.

And there’s more — but that part requires an actual human-to-human conversation.

Thanks for stopping by. If you’re an artist looking to make something heartfelt, strange, ambitious, or a little bit chaotic in the best way, we’ll probably get along just fine.