bio

Emma Callahan is a performer, writer, and video artist raised in Brooklyn, New York. They recently performed their one-person play first date at The Brick !? New Works festival in April 2025, acted in AMA by Kenneth Keng as a part of the Exponential Festival, and originated Kate in workshops of Drawing Lessons by Michi Barrall with Ma-Yi Theater Company. They’ve performed at venues like Performance Space New York, La Mama ETC, Littlefield, Union Hall, Life World, Target Margin Theater, 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.

Emma is a creative producer, writer, and performer on Jordan Show, an alternative late night talk show hosted and created by Jordan Coley. They’ve hosted the comedy shows Family Friends with Anne Lim and Heyyy… Lol with Michael Oluokun.

She was 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.

She was a 2023-24 Performance Project Fellow at University Settlement.