Briana Pozner is an Altadena–based writer, actor, and filmmaker who often writes awkward comedies exploring obsession, emotional blind spots, and the messy contradictions of human behavior. She is a recent Black List/Women in Film Fellow whose work spans television, film, and personal essays, including pieces in The New York Times and The Huffington Post. Her 2022 Modern Love column, “Why is my Husband Marrying Her?” was the most read Modern Love of that year.
She recently wrote and directed the comedic short film Following (starring Melissa Joan Hart), and co-created and directed and co-created the Adult Swim micro-short series The Non-Essentials, whose first episode was a Vimeo Staff Pick. Additional films include South of Bix (Vimeo Staff Pick, starring M. Emmet Walsh and Justine Lupe), I Lost My Mother's Ashes (co-writer, starring Mandy Moore) and Second Date, all of which have screened at Oscar-qualifying festivals nationwide.
Her pilots Vigilantes and Settling are Black List–recommended. Settling is currently in development with Olive Bridge Entertainment and Tornante producing. Her play The Adventures of Flo and Greg premiered at Echo Theater, where it received the company’s biannual Women’s Playwriting Award.
As an actor, Briana has performed and developed work Off-Broadway and regionally with Playwrights Horizons, 59E59, Clubbed Thumb, Ensemble Studio Theatre, the Humana Festival, and The Flea, among others. TV credits include The Blacklist and The Knick.
Alongside writing, Briana is a tarot reader and consulted on the subject for the Netflix mini-series Something Very Bad is Going to Happen. Her tarot deck and book Upe_Upe (deck designed by artist Christina Justiz Roush) was released in the Fall of 2024.
She is a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College.