bio

Emma Callahan is a performer, writer, and video artist raised in Brooklyn, New York. They’ve performed at venues like Performance Space New York, La Mama ETC, Target Margin Theater, Littlefield, Union Hall, Life World, Night Club 101, and a random basement in an Opera house in Bushwick. Her full-length play FREE! TONIGHT!! has been read at The Tank, The Drama League, and Irish Repertory Theater.

They were the Lead Director for 8 Ball Community TV, was a community member of the live experimental multimedia collective Phase Space, was an interviewer to the A/P/A Voices COVID-19 oral history project, and worked as crew on live comedy shows like Chris Gethard Presents and The Special without Brett Davis. When they were very small, they were named “The Funniest High School Comedy Writer” by NPR’s Studio 360, and BJ Novak.

They were a 2023-24 Performance Project Fellow at University Settlement.