Emil Weinstein is a writer/director for theater, tv, and film. Emil’s work in theater includes BECOMING EVE which had a sold out run in New York City in April 2025 and won Off Broadway Alliance (Best Play) and Drama Desk (Best Puppetry) awards that year. His work as a theater director includes Twelfth Night at Two River Theater and Comedy of Errors at The Old Globe. His first short CANDACE premiered at the American Pavilion at the Cannes Film Festival where it won Best Film. His second short IN FRANCE MICHELLE IS A MAN’S NAME won Grand Jury Prizes at Slamdance and Outfest. For television, Emil was a writer on Amazon’s A League of Their Own, and directed four hour-long episodes of The L Word Generation Q for Showtime. Emil graduated summa cum laude from Smith College and has an M.F.A. in Directing from the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale where he directed the first ever production of Jeremy O. Harris’s SLAVE PLAY
