Emily Elyse Everett

Emily is a writer and actor based in Brooklyn.

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She writes plays, television, films, and musicals about ordinary people caught in extraordinary moral dilemmas. With a deep tenderness and sharp wit, she explores how ambition, shame, class, and need for belonging drive people toward acts of remarkable courage or devastating consequence.

Plays include: Strange and Splendid (Frank Moffett Mosier Fellowship for Works in Heightened Language), Serenity (Semifinalist—Lanford Wilson New American Plays Festival), sorry sorry okay sorry (Valdez Theater Conference, Semifinalist — American Blues Theater Blue Ink Award), New England Summer Storms (Finalist—Emerson Stages NewFest, Finalist—Circle in the Square Theatre School Emerging Writer's Residency), The Blood (Edinburgh Fringe Festival), and The Quakers (Catwalk Arts Residency, Valdez Theater Conference). 

Emily is a graduate of the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theater Workshop, where she developed her folk-rock musical The Scarlet Letter with her collaborator Yael Karoly. Karoly and Everett were also residents at the Catwalk Arts Residency to develop the show. She is one of the writers of the original concert series BookTalk: The Musical: The Cabaret, which premiered at Green Room 42. She also wrote the 5-episode serialized mystery podcast, "Process" (Austin Film Festival—Second Rounder), which will be released in October 2026.

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As an actor, Emily played Becca in Nightdrive's tour of The Grown-ups, reprising the role from the sold-out NYC run, which extended three times. Time Out New York called it “the coolest new play you probably can’t see” and included it on their list of the top 10 shows of 2021. Catch her in indie, downtown, and experimental shows around Brooklyn and the corners of Manhattan. 

Originally from Portland, Oregon, Emily has a BA in Playwriting from Brown University and an MFA in Playwriting from Columbia University.