Emmanuel Wilson is an arts advocate, playwright, director, and executive producer. Currently serving as Co-Executive Director of the Dramatists Guild, the national trade association representing playwrights, composers, lyricists, and librettists, Emmanuel has dedicated over 20 years to championing the voices of America's theatre writers. He serves on the boards of Arts Workers United, The 24-Hour Plays, and PlayPenn. Emmanuel is the co-editor of the Anthem Award-winning Young Dramatists: A Guide to Help Aspiring Writers Become Professional Artists—the first of its kind, serving as a primer on the business of writing for the theatre and empowering young theatre writers.

A founding supporter of Enough! Plays to End Gun Violence, a national playwriting competition for young writers, Emmanuel is also a founding supporter of the Candela's Summer Playwrights Fellowship, a unique initiative offering emerging playwrights of Latin American and Caribbean heritage an unparalleled opportunity for development. He is a founding member of Counting Together, a coalition of theater artists, arts professionals, and organizations engaged in long-term studies of race, gender, and disability in the field. A former Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and Andrew W. Mellon Foundation grant fellow, Emmanuel is currently establishing a new non-profit dedicated to training the emerging generation of theatre writers for successful professional careers.

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