Emma
Zetterberg
Hello!
Screenwriter - Playwright
Emma Zetterberg is an American-Swedish writer and loose-leaf tea fanatic currently based in London and New York.
About
Emma Zetterberg writes plays, tv, and features in all genres, but they all tend to be very heart-forward and research-based.
She received her MFA in Dramatic Writing from New York University in 2023. Before NYU, Emma studied theater and art history at Middlebury College, where she graduated summa cum laude and received the Kellogg Fellowship—a grant to conduct original, in-situ research in Sweden on August Strindberg’s early paintings and plays. While at Tisch, Emma received the Tisch Creative Research grant and interned in TV Development at Playground Entertainment and worked at Martin Scorsese’s production company, Sikelia Productions.
Since graduating, she has worked as a Researcher at Rogan Productions on the documentary ABBA: Against the Odds, as well as being a script reader for NYU’s Admissions Committee and Playground Entertainment.
Awards/Publications/Grants/Honors
2024
Finalist – Fusion Film Festival (There in Spirit)
2023
2022
Honorable Mention – Sloan Grand Jury Prize (The Light in Your Eyes)
Winner – NYU Sloan Prize (The Light in Your Eyes)
Winner – Best Screenplay - Swedish International Film Festival (The Light in Your Eyes)
Selected – Athena Film Festival Writers Lab (The Third Period Pilot)
Winner – NYU Festival of Short Works (“Mary Newton and the Apple”)
Finalist – Woolly Mammoth x The Black List Playwriting Commission (ROMAN BUST)
Publication – Samuel French/Concord Theatricals (“9.5,” Theatre Master’s Volume XIII)
Winner – Theatre Master’s Take Ten MFA Playwrights Festival (“9.5”)
Grant – Tisch Creative Research Grant (The Viewer - Pilot)
2019
Kellogg Fellowship – Middlebury College (August Strindberg project)
Selected works
Feature - The Light in Your Eyes (Ljuset i Dina Ögon)
Historical Drama
Logline: Allvar Gullstrand, a Swedish scientist who won the Nobel Prize in 1911 for his contributions to understanding eyesight, is blinded by his own grief over losing his legacy and decides to prevent Albert Einstein from winning a Nobel Prize.
Feature - There in Spirit
Romantic Dramedy
Logline: Desperate not to be forgotten, a ghost becomes dead set on sabotaging her ex-girlfriend's wedding in the land of the living.
Pilot - The Third Period
One-hour sports Drama
Logline: A woman maneuvers herself into becoming the NHL's first female coach, only to be faced with the prospect of losing herself in order to win games and a shot at the coveted position of head coach.
Play - ROMAN BUST
Dramedy
Logline: When an ambitious high school student, Lori, and her mother, Darcy, learn they accidentally sold an authentic Ancient Roman bust worth six hundred thousand dollars for only thirty four dollars and ninety-nine cents, they'll stop at nothing to try to get it back.
contact
ez5983@gmail.com
