Briana Pozner is a writer, actor and filmmaker interested in capturing the nuances and contradictions of human behavior across a span of many different genres.
Most recently her essay “Why is my Husband Marrying Her?” was published in the New York Times Modern Love section and was the most read Modern Love essay of 2022. It can be found here:
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/23/style/modern-love-why-is-my-husband-marrying-her.html
Her ten episode micro-short series The Non-Essentials was released in 2020 on Adult Swim Smalls (Episode One, Vimeo Staff Picked). Her shorts I Lost My Mother's Ashes (Co-writer, starring Mandy Moore), South of Bix (Vimeo Staff Picked, starring M. Emmet Walsh and Justine Lupe), and Second Date have screened at Oscar qualifying festivals across the US including Austin Film Festival, Palm Springs Int. Shorts fest, LA Shortsfest, Hollyshorts and Aspen Film Festival. Her scripts have placed in many competitions including Austin Film Festival, The Big Break Contest and Launch Pad (Finalist, Top 100). Her play The Adventures of Flo and Greg won Echo Theater’s bi-annual award and was subsequently performed there. She is a co-founder of production company Foxy Muskrat.
As an actor she has performed and developed work with Playwrights Horizons, 59E59, Clubbed Thumb, Ensemble Studio Theater, The Humana Fest., The Flea, among others. TV: Blacklist, The Knick. She holds a BA from Sarah Lawrence College.