Emma Goidel writes for theater and TV in New York City.

Her plays include Women and Children (2020 Page 73 Residency, 2021 O’Neill National Playwrights Conference Finalist), Two Minutes To Midnight (Clubbed Thumb Early-Career Writers Group, mentored by Sheila Callaghan), The Gap (Barrymore Award, 2019 Kilroys List, American Theatre Critics Association/Steinberg Award Nominee), Local Girls (Princess Grace Award Finalist, Playwrights Realm Writing Fellow), A Knee That Can Bend (American Theatre Critics Association/Steinberg Award Nominee, Barrymore Award Finalist, Lanford Wilson Award Nominee), and We Can All Agree To Pretend This Never Happened (EST Marathon, Òran Mór in Glasgow, InterAct & Tiny Dynamite in Philly).

Emma is the 2020 Page 73 Playwriting Fellow, continuing through 2021 due to Covid, and a member of the 2020 I73 Writers Group. She currently has an original TV series in development with FX.

Her work has been developed and presented by Ars Nova (Play Group), Azuka Theater, Clubbed Thumb, Colt Coeur (Resident Artist), Ensemble Studio Theatre, LAByrinth Theatre Co., Orchard Project (Greenhouse Lab), Playwrights Realm (Writing Fellow), The Playwrights’ Center, New York Stage & Film, PlayPenn’s The Foundry, Theater Exile, and InterAct Theatre Company. Commissions: Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Hearth, Tiny Dynamite.

Emma moved to New York in 2017 after five years in Philadelphia, where she co-founded Orbiter 3—a producing playwrights collective called "the most exciting development in Philadelphia Theatre since the opening of FringeArts" by Philadelphia Magazine in 2014.

Orbiter 3 premiered new works by James Ijames, Emma, Emily Acker, Douglas Williams, Mary Tuomanen, Sam Henderson, and L M Feldman to critical acclaim. In 2017, Orbiter 3 became the youngest company ever to win a Barrymore Award for Excellence in Theatre, after receiving twelve nominations.

Emma is also a member of The Kilroys, a bicoastal collective of theater artists dedicated to combatting gender bias in American theater. She is an alumna of Barnard College, new mom to a sweet baby, and a Virgo (Cancer moon, Aquarius rising).