Emily Cicchini writes material for stage, film and interactive media, most notably Becoming Brontë and Mays & Terese. Her work has been honored with the Austin Critics' Table Award for Best Original New Script, the B. Iden Payne Award for Outstanding Original Script, and by the Children's Foundation of America. As resident playwright since the company's inception, the Pollyanna Theatre Company has premiered many of her original plays for young audiences, including Edward, The Owl, and The Calico Cat, A Christmas Rose, Community Helpers on Wheels, A Dragon's Happy Day, Duckie Sees The World, Just Bee, and the Pattern Nation series. She edited the 4 volume Mother/Daughter Monologues series for the International Centre for Women Playwrights. Cicchini holds an MFA in playwriting from the University of Texas at Austin where she was a James A. Michener Fellow, and a BFA in acting from DePaul/Goodman School of Drama.
