Briana Pozner is a Los Angeles–based writer, actor, and filmmaker whose work revels in the beauty and discomfort of human contradiction. Her essays have appeared 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 upcoming comedic short Following (starring Melissa Joan Hart), and co-created and directed the Adult Swim micro-short series The Non-Essentials. (Episode One Vimeo Staff Picked.) 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 scripts Vigilantes and Settling are Blacklist recommended.
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, she reads tarot and consulted on the subject for the upcoming Netflix series Something Very Bad is Going to Happen. Her book on the tarot Upe_Upe (deck designed by artist Christina Justiz Roush) was released in the Fall of 2024.
She is a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College.