Emmy Potter

EMMY POTTER is a New York-based writer, actor, and director by way of the Midwest. Her pop culture writing has been featured on IFC, Consequence of Sound, CultureSonar, Bright Wall/Dark Room, Crooked Marquee, the Film Stage, and the Belladonna Comedy among other outlets. She also has an essay featured in the The Magnificent, Magical, Marvelous Mrs. Maisel authorized companion coffee table book for the Emmy Award-winning series from Abrams Books, TCO London, and Amazon Studios. She is a frequent guest on a number of pop-culture podcasts including Podcast Like It's..., Hit Factory, and Exiting Through the 2010s.

Offline, she is the author of several plays including The Wayward Women (2025 Queens Short Play Festival FINALIST and winner of BEST DIRECTOR, 2019 New Play Series commission from Phoenix Theatre Ensemble) Maneater (2019 Players Theater Short Play Festival), Pas de Trois, Sotto Voce, and the one-act All Downhill. Her monologue "A Lighthouse" was selected as part of Volume 4 of the Playground Experiment's Faces of America Festival and Monologue Anthology in 2021. She served as a pilot script adjudicator for the Storyteller's Initiative at SeriesFest for four years and has consulted on developing TV and film scripts. Emmy is a proud member of the Dramatists Guild.

As an actor, Emmy has appeared in a variety of roles across multiple mediums (stage, film, and new media) at places including American Theatre of Actors, the Secret Theatre, Caveat, the Duplex, and the Players Theatre. From Classical (Chekhov, Seneca, Wilde) to Contemporary, Emmy’s versatility as an actress comes from years of rigorous training and a deep love of and sensitivity to the text.

Emmy also produced, hosted, and performed in the monthly show A Great Week for Women with her all-female comedy-writing group. She holds a B.M. in Music Theatre from Oklahoma City University and is certified in the Meisner Technique. She is currently pursuing her MFA in Playwriting at the University of Nebraska-Omaha.