Emily J. Daly

Emily J. Daly is a writer and producer for stage, screen and audio.

As a playwright, Emily’s work has been presented in New York City by Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, Primary Stages, Stable Cable, Pigeonholed, and Gi60; and regionally at Great Plains Theater Conference, Capital Fringe, and foolsFURY Factory Parts. Her play Lumbricus Terrestris was a finalist for the Heideman Award, and her recent production credits include A Beautiful Day in the Garden of Eden at the Sam French Off Off Broadway One-Act Festival, Go Home and Return in Glory (co-created with Lexy Leuszler) at Rhinofest; and #yourmemorial, which was nominated for a 2019 NYIT Award for Best Original Full-Length Script. She was part of the inaugural Speakers’ Corner at Gingold Theatrical, and is a member of Middle Voice at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater.

Emily’s screenwriting credits include the film short ‘In Case We Get Found’ (winner at NYMA, Flow Festival, Frostbite International, Hollywood Gold, & Couch Film Festival); pilot ‘Sox News, written in association with Frank Conniff and others and produced by Martian Media (Best Writing at ITVF 2015); and digital series ‘SPARKLE: A Don Quixote Story’ with InstaMiniSeries. Her screenplay ‘Til Death Do Us Part’ was a 2022 semifinalist for the Los Angeles International Screenplay Awards. 

Emily writes and produces for audio storytelling platforms. She was the script supervisor for the audio series ‘MTA: Ride or Die with Rattlestick Playwrights Theater’, and wrote the episode ‘Times Square’. She’s a producer for Our Body Politic, a nationally-syndicated radio show and podcast that centers women of color in politics and civic life. She’s currently developing a science-fiction podcast series about NYC’s subway system. 

Emily earned her BA at Johns Hopkins University as a Bloomberg Scholar, where she studied under John Astin and won the Richard Macksey Award for excellence in the humanities. She recently graduated from The New School for Drama with her MFA in Playwriting, under the direction of Lucy Thurber and Todd London. She loves long walks on the beach, but who doesn’t? www.emilyjdaly.com