Emily Bridger

writer - filmmaker - actor

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

She has written and directed several short films which have screened at various festivals nationally and internationally.

Emily is the recipient of the 35th Annual ArtsNL CBC Emerging Artist of the year award, 2016 RBC Michelle Jackson Emerging Filmmaker Award, the 2018 WIFT-AT All Access Pass Award, and is an alumna of the Women in the Director’s Chair (WIDC). Emily received the NL Arts & Letters Award for her stageplay Our Hell is a Good Life (2018). Her 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).

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