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BINGE REPRESENT HERE!

4/20/2020

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Welp, there it is, folks! As of last Friday, ALL EPISODES of my web series REPRESENT are out and available for you to view! (At least, all of season one...)

I'm so proud of the work we all did, and so thankful for everyone who has watched it so far. Watching something that I thought of, wrote, starred in, and edited finally reach people's eyes is so trippy but also so, so cool.

You can watch the whole series so far on YouTube, or on the ​REPRESENT website. Or you can watch one of my favorite episodes above! And if you happen to love it and have some money and want to finance a second season, hit me up! I have it all planned out :)
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REPRESENT IS LIVE!

4/2/2020

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It's HEEEERE!!!!! The first three episodes of REPRESENT premiered last week!
I started writing REPRESENT in the fall of 2015. We started filming in the fall of 2017. We finished filming early 2018. It took us until the end of 2018 to edit it, and finally after the festival run, it's ready.

I've spent nearly five years working on this series, and it brings me so much joy to finally see people laugh along and love it like I do. Well, maybe not as much as I do - it is my baby, after all :) Check out the first episode below!
Please visit ​www.representwebseries.com for more about the series and the amazing people that made it happen. And please watch the first three episodes!
New episodes are being released every Friday, so subscribe to our YouTube channel to make sure you don't miss it!
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REPRESENT Premiere next week!

3/18/2020

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Hello, friends!!

I hope everyone is staying safe and sane inside during the COVID-19 crisis. I'm grateful to be inside with plenty of food, TP, and time to write. In the last week and a half, I've finished a draft of a feature and an hour-long pilot, so the extra time stuck at home is being put to good use! Also, we've been ramping up for my web series's release next week!
The first three episodes of REPRESENT will be premiering online on Friday, March 27 (#femalefilmmakerfriday)! That's right - the thing I've spent HOURS and hours of time on, that was made through the love of a billion people who helped me, that I've been working on for, at this point, years? It will be on your laptop screen in, like, a week. WILD​, right?
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As the day gets closer, I get more and more nervous. But ultimately, what really matters is not who likes what we made and who doesn't. What matters is that we made it. That's huge. That's a leap of faith. It's  an act of hope. And it's gonna be incredible, whether a million people watch it, or just my mom and my therapy group (who promised me they would, so don't back out now, Sarah*!)

Love you all! Stay healthy out there!

*I do have a real therapy group who promised to watch, but none of them is named Sarah. I'm not about to break confidentiality, y'all!
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Happy 2020!

1/2/2020

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Happy New Year, everyone!

I am so beyond excited about 2020 for so many reasons. Every year, I try to choose a word to focus on and use as a guiding light throughout the year. This year, I chose "receive". I have had a lot of trouble with this word in my life. First of all, it's the only word in my vocabulary that I still have difficulty spelling occasionally. But mostly, as a lifelong over-achiever, I rarely feel like I'm doing enough. I tend to focus on pushing myself to produce, on waving away compliments, opportunities, and accomplishments.

But this year is going to be different. It's my first full year in LA, and I'm ready to receive opportunities, inspiration, money, love, happiness, and all other good things that come my way! I'm keeping the channels open, and that's part of why I'm so excited to finally announce: REPRESENT IS COMING OUT THIS YEAR!
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My web series REPRESENT, which I wrote, produced, co-directed, and co-starred in, has finished its film festival run and is finally coming to your screens in 2020! Specifically, the first three episodes will be available March 27 - the last #FemaleFilmmakerFriday of Women's History Month! I'm so excited to finally release something that so many of my best friends worked so hard on. To keep track of all the updates, visit www.representwebseries.com, or follow @representwebseries on Instagram!

My year of receiving has officially begun! Thanks for keeping up with me and my career, and I hope you receive everything you deserve in 2020!

-Emily
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update | Awards and selections!

12/13/2019

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Hi, all!  It's been a little while since I posted, but thank you for being patient with me as I acclimate more to my new city surroundings in LA! I've missed out on telling you about some news, so I wanted to do a quick update to keep you informed!
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First, back in October I was thrilled to get the news that my short film script, The Pledge, won the Best Short Script Award at the Boobs and Blood Film Festival! Boobs and Blood is a festival celebrating women in horror that embraces humor and camp, so it was a natural fit for my script about a sorority with a secret. I had so much fun at the event (as evidenced by the photo on the left) and can't believe that I won such a prestigious award! Thanks to Miles and everyone at Boobs and Blood!
The Pledge has also received some additional buzz by being selected for the Women in Horror Film Festival! I was so excited about this one, because it's such a huge deal for female genre filmmakers.
But there is an extra level of mind-blown-ness for me, because since my script is a finalist, it's still under consideration for awards - so it's being read by the festival's judges, which include absolute legends of horror, like Heather Langenkamp from A Nightmare on Elm Street, and Marianne Maddalena, who produced one of my favorite horror movies, Scream! I can't believe my little script is going to be read by these amazing women, so regardless of how the awards shake out, I'm overwhelmingly PUMPED.
Finally, a different script of mine, Homefront, has received its first official selection at the TalNexus Screenplay Competition, where it was very highly rated! Homefront is so special to me, because it's about women home front workers in World War II, a story that I've been so passionate about ever since visiting the Rosie the Riveter Museum in Richmond, CA and meeting several real-life Rosies who once worked at the shipyards. It's also the script that got me my literary agent Diane, and definitely one of the best things I've ever written. I'm really excited for the future of ​Homefront, and so thankful to the folks at TalNexus for recognizing it.
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This is all to say, I've been amazing - thank you so much for asking! I'm about to travel back to the Midwest to visit family for the holidays, so I'll be taking a tiny break to enjoy that time! But I'm really, really looking forward to all the doubtlessly incredible things 2020 has in store for me. #prayerhandemoji #2blessed2bestressed
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New Literary Representation!

10/8/2019

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​Here is my very most writerly headshot to announce that I've signed with Diane Wang at The Library Agency's literary division!

I am so, so excited to be partnering with Diane and everyone at Library! I have had agents in the past for acting, but this is my first time being represented as a writer, and it means so much too me as I'm leaning more into my writing every day! After many years of writing script after script, alone with my laptop, with no sense of whether a line of dialogue is actually funny or only funny to me, it is amazing to be working with people who actually know what they are doing and still take me seriously as a screenwriter!

​We've already started working on getting a script of mine ready, so I can't wait to see all the wonderful things this relationship will hold! Thank you to Diane and The Library Agency!
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Millennial Lizzie McGuire | comedy video

8/26/2019

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So happy to announce that I've been hard at work on the recently announced Lizzie McGuire reboot!  Thought I'd show y'all a sneak peek! :P

Okay, in all seriousness - I'm not working on this show, obviously. But in middle school I watched every episode and copied every one of Lizzie's hairstyles, so when the reboot was announced this week, I did find myself wondering what a grown-up Lizzie would be like. This is the very silly, slightly profane result...
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UCB IMPROV!

8/26/2019

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Okay, I'll be honest with you - this is a #stealthfie (AKA stealth selfie). I was trying not to seem too corny and weird to the receptionists at the UCB Training Center. But I really wanted to commemorate the occasion, because I took this right after my very first improv class at UCB!

Improv has long been basically my last true performance-related fear. I've done it before in projects, but for whatever reason I have always psyched myself out and convinced myself that it's not for me. It's maybe (definitely) something about the whole fear matrix I have around being good/right/seeming dumb. How can I be right if I step on the stage without knowing what's going to happen? How can I not seem stupid if I don't know what I'm doing? GUYS I AM NOTHING IF NOT SELF AWARE OKAY.
I had so many awesome improviser friends in college, and I loved going to their shows, but I distinctly remember watching them, thinking to myself "I could never do that."

Which, honestly, LOL. Because all my life, the second I start thinking that is the second my brain starts going, "You know what?...No. No. Well...HA!" like the woman in that meme when she tries kombucha for the first time.

This is all to say, basically, eff all that. Because I'm in improv classes at freakin' UCB now. Yep. That UCB. Which, I know paying to take a 101-level improv class at such an institution is not prestigious or anything, but man. That kinda feels big in itself! And I guess if you're in LA, you can come see me do bad improv in October!  But in the meantime, I'm enjoying healing bad patterns and being ridiculous while doing it, which is good enough for me!

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New Jersey WEb Fest Nominations!!

8/14/2019

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Y'all, we have some new award nominations! My web series REPRESENT has been nominated for three different awards at the upcoming New Jersey Web Fest, including Best Series Premise! I was nominated in the category of Best Actress in a Comedy, which I am high-key thrilled about. But my favorite nomination is the last one!
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My co-star Jackie Dallas and I were nominated jointly for Best On-Screen Chemistry in our roles as Ellie and Tess in the series. This one in particular means so much to me, because one of my favorite things about making REPRESENT was having Jackie as my scene partner and developing a real friendship and partnership with her. To be nominated together in this category makes so much sense - because it couldn't have happened without her!
If you're in the NY/NJ area, the New Jersey Web Fest is happening September 20-22!  If not, trust that I will keep you updated on how it all goes!  Thanks, NJ Web Fest!
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Festival News! | Screenings and noms!

7/16/2019

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Here we are again, friends! Back at it again with REPRESENT news! This time, I am thrilled to announce three major awesome things that our little web series gets to do!

First, we will, for the first time EVER, be screening internationally!  That's right, Seoul Web Fest selected REPRESENT and will be screening episode 9, "Spilling the Tea." Around here (aka my apartment/friend circle), it's widely known as the Percy episode, because it features Connor Tracy as Percy -- arguably the funniest part of the whole series and definitely a fan favorite (see below for the fierceness)! We can't be in Korea for it, but we are so, so pumped that we will be there in spirit!
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Secondly, we've been nominated for another award!! The amazing folks at Oregon Cinema Arts Film Festival will be screening our sixth episode, affectionately titled "The Patriarchy F*cks Up Everything", on Saturday, August 10. But not only that - they have also nominated our cast for Best Ensemble!  For a mama bear who is endlessly proud of her cast no matter what, this is still huge. Thank you, OCAFF!
 And finally, we are so, so excited to say that we are going back to our roots!  Broad Humor Film Festival was the first fest to accept and stage a reading of the REPRESENT script, and now they have selected our episodes for screening and awards consideration!  Marissa Vonn, one of REPRESENT's directors, and I had the most amazing time at Broad Humor last year (see the picture to the right), and we are so thrilled to be able to go back! That'll be the weekend of August 29 - September 1 in Venice, CA.
GUYS. I CAN'T WITH ALL THE LOVE. REPRESENT is and will forever be my baby, and to see that it means something to other people is endlessly satisfying. I'm gonna go cry now ​♥
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