Emil Ari Weinstein is a writer and director for television, film and theater.
Emil’s play Becoming Eve premiered Off-Broadway in April 2025 and won the Off Broadway Alliance Award for Best Play and the Drama Desk for puppetry.
Emil’s short film In France Michelle is a Man’s Name won two Grand Jury Prizes for Best Narrative Short: Slamdance (2021) and Outfest (2020). Emil’s short film Candace played at festivals worldwide including the American Pavilion Emerging LGBTQ Filmmakers Showcase at the Cannes Film Festival, where it won Best Film.
For television, Emil directed four episodes of season three of The L Word Generation Q for Showtime and wrote for Amazon’s reboot of A League of Their Own .
While getting his M.F.A. at Yale School of Drama, Emil directed the first workshop production of Slave Play by Jeremy O. Harris, which little-over-a-year later premiered at New York Theater Workshop directed by Robert O. Hara.
Emil graduated summa cum laude from Smith College and received an M.F.A. from the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale. Emil is repped by CAA and Adventure Media.
