Emma Callahan is an interdisciplinary performer, writer, and video artist raised in Brooklyn, New York. Her multi-genre work explores cultural borderlands in all shapes and forms: in language, memory and myth, re-enactment and repetition; from the dark recesses of Internet subculture to the expansive legacies of American colonialism on the Filipino diasporic experience. They are fascinated with the fluid space between a performer and their audience, and the public performance of gender and race in the everyday. They’ve performed at venues like La Mama Experimental Theater Club, Union Hall, 3 Dollar Bill, Life World, and a random basement in an Opera house in Bushwick. In 2018, they had an artist showcase of three short plays in the Summer Fresh Festival in Brooklyn, NY. Last year, their full-length play “FREE! TONIGHT!!” was read at the Drama League in New York. Their self-produced stand up comedy shows have raised thousands of dollars for mutual aid groups in New York City. They currently host the comedy shows “Hey… Lol…” with Michael Oluokun, and “Family Friends” with Anne Lim. She was the Lead Director for 8 Ball Community TV, contributed to the A/P/A Voices COVID-19 oral history project, and worked on comedy shows like “Chris Gethard Presents.” When they were very small, they were named “The Funniest High School Comedy Writer” by NPR’s Studio 360, and BJ Novak.

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