Emily Schleiger is a screenwriter and writer in the Chicago area. Her dark comedy feature screenplay LOUDMOUSE scored in the top 15% of the 2021 and 2023 Nicholl Fellowships, was a finalist for the 2021 and 2022 Athena Screenwriters Labs, and advanced to the 2nd Round of the 2022 Austin Film Festival.

Her satire and humor work has been published on McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, Reductress, The Second City Network, and more.  She's also performed at storytelling shows and readings, including Mortified. She is a survivor of a short career in human resources and is a mom of two. She swears she will live near a coast before she dies.

She earned her MFA at the low-residency program at University of California Riverside-Palm Desert, with a concentration in screenwriting. Previously she studied writing at The Second City, Catapult and elsewhere, and improv and sketch at The Second City and Westside Improv.

If she has gone missing, please check anywhere hot buttered popcorn is sold, or maybe start asking that aggressive-looking clown some hard questions.