Emily Adler was born and raised in New York City. She is a graduate of Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota and has a Masters in Theater from Hunter College, where she studied with playwright Tina Howe. Her many jobs while playwriting include: waitress, video store clerk, kosher bakery clerk, conference organizer, production assistant, preschool teacher, and ESL teacher. Her plays to date include: The Frog in the Flipper, Spiritual Playboy, and Andromeda Speaks. She is also the artistic director of a peer education theater group at a college in New Jersey and co-founder, along with Michael Joseph Smith, of Mixed Blessings Theater Company - which produced John Patrick Shanley’s Four Dogs and a Bone at the Red Room.