Briana Pozner is a writer, actor and filmmaker currently residing in Los Angeles.
Most recently her essay “Why is my Husband Marrying Her?” was published in the New York Times (Modern Love) and was the most read Modern Love essay of the year.
Her ten episode micro-short series The Non-Essentials (directed, co-created) premiered on Adult Swim Smalls and Episode One was a Vimeo Staff Pick.
Her shorts South of Bix (Vimeo Staff Picked, starring M. Emmet Walsh and Justine Lupe), I Lost My Mother's Ashes (Co-writer, starring Mandy Moore) and Second Date have screened at Oscar qualifying festivals across the country including Austin Film Festival, Palm Springs Int. Shorts fest, LA Shortsfest, Hollyshorts and Aspen Film Festival. Her scripts have placed in many competitions some of which include Austin Film Festival, The Big Break Contest and Launch Pad. Her pilot Settling is ranked in the top 3.5% of scripts on The Black List. Her play The Adventures of Flo and Greg won Echo Theater’s bi-annual playwriting award and was subsequently performed there. She is a co-founder of production company Foxy Muskrat.
As an actor she has performed and developed work with Playwrights Horizons, 59E59, Clubbed Thumb, Ensemble Studio Theater, The Humana Fest., The Flea, among others. TV: Blacklist, The Knick.
She’s a former volunteer of the 52nd street project and former subcommittee member for the American Playwriting Foundation. She holds a BA from Sarah Lawrence College.