Emily Bridger

Emily Bridger is a writer, filmmaker, and actor from St. John’s, Newfoundland.

She has written and directed several short films which have screened at various festivals nationally and internationally. Her first feature film screenplay, Little Orphans, was selected for the 2017 Whistler Film Festival Praxis Screenwriters Lab as well as the 2018 Telefilm Talent to Watch Program. Directed by Ruth Lawrence and produced by Jenny Hawley, Little Orphans premiered at the Atlantic Film Festival and won the Borsos Award for Best Canadian Feature at the Whistler Film Festival 2020.

Currently, Emily is Artistic Associate and Playwright in Residence with Poverty Cove Theatre Company in St. John’s while she completes her Masters of Fine Arts in Creative Writing at the University of British Columbia (via distance).