Briana Pozner is an Altadena-based writer, actor, and filmmaker whose work often explores obsession, emotional blind spots, and the messy contradictions of human behavior. Her Black List-recommended pilot Settling is currently in development at Amazon, with Olive Bridge Entertainment and Tornante producing. She is a recent Black List/Women in Film Fellow. Her essays have appeared in The New York Times, The Huffington Post, including her 2022 Modern Love column, “Why Is My Husband Marrying Her?”, the most-read Modern Love essay of that year.
She recently wrote and directed the comedic short film Following, starring Melissa Joan Hart, and co-created and directed 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. Her work has screened at festivals nationwide, including Palm Springs International ShortsFest, Aspen Film festival, Austin Film Festival, HollyShorts, Nashville Film Festival, and Maryland Film Festival.
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. Her television credits include The Blacklist and The Knick.
Alongside writing, Briana is a tarot reader and consulted on the subject for the Netflix miniseries Something Very Bad Is Going to Happen. Her tarot deck and book, Upe_Upe, designed by artist Christina Justiz Roush, were released in fall 2024.
She is a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College.