Emma Swain (she/her) is an emerging playwright and music theater artist currently based in Minneapolis, MN and originally from Illinois. She holds a B.A. in Music Theatre and English from Carthage College in Kenosha, WI, is a proud German-American dual citizen, loves to cook without a recipe, and has far too many houseplants for her small apartment (and yet, somehow not enough plants). Emma's plays have appeared at New Match Collective in San Diego, CA (WIRE TAPS), Orlando Repertory Theater in Orlando, FL (CINDERELLA: THE REAL STORY), Spark Creative Works in NYC (LEAVE A LIGHT ON), Post Theater Company in NYC (TEQUILA SUNRISE), The Iowa High School Speech Association (WIRE TAPS), Carthage College (various), and the Region III Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival (WIRE TAPS), at which she was also awarded the 2020 Region III John Cauble Short Play Award. Her works can also be found on the New Play Exchange. Apart from playwriting, Emma also works as a singer-actor and a freelance journalist, and dabbles in poetry, short story, creative nonfiction, and critical literature analysis.