Briana Pozner is an LA-based writer, actor and filmmaker. Her essays can be found in The New York Times and The Huffington Post. Her 2022 Modern Love essay “Why is my Husband Marrying Her?” was the most read Modern Love essay of that year.
Recently she wrote and directed the upcoming comedy short Following (starring Melissa Joan Hart) and directed and co-created the Adult Swim micro-short series The Non-Essentials. (Episode One Vimeo Staff Picked.) Other film work includes South of Bix (Vimeo Staff Pick, starring M. Emmet Walsh and Justine Lupe), I Lost My Mother's Ashes (co-writer, starring Mandy Moore) and Second Date, all of which have screened at Oscar qualifying festivals across the country. Her scripts Vigilantes and Settling are Blacklist recommended and her pilots have placed in many competitions (Austin Film Festival, Big Break, Launchpad, Screencraft to name a few). Her play The Adventures of Flo and Greg premiered at Echo Theater and won their bi-annual women’s playwriting award.
As an actor she’s performed and developed work off-broadway and regionally with Playwrights Horizons, 59E59, Clubbed Thumb, Ensemble Studio Theater, The Humana Fest., The Flea, among others. TV: Blacklist, The Knick.
Alongside her career, she reads tarot professionally and consulted on the subject for the upcoming Netflix show Something Very Bad is Going to Happen. Her book on the tarot Upe_Upe (deck designed by artist Christina Justiz Roush) was released in the Fall of 2024.
She is a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College.