Emily Duke is a writer, comedian, fat activist and born and raised, holier-than-thou New Yorker. Strangers call her hilarious. Friends call her endearing and tiresome. Dearest friends call her completely insufferable. Most recently, she wrote for a VR Variety Show pilot for Double Eye Productions. Her personal essay regarding obesity and vaccine eligibility was one of the "most read" in Slate, she has appeared on Red Table Talk with Jada Pinkett Smith, and been featured in The NYTimes, NewNowNext and Bust Magazine.Emily's original pilot Middle Gentry is #1 on Coverfly's Red List having been rated in the top 25 of Launchpad's Pilot Competition and selected as a Quarterfinalist in both the Stage 32 TV Comedy Screenwriting Contest and the ScreenCraft TV Pilot Script Competition. She is an official script reader for the Austin Film Festival in both TV and Feature categories, and her satirical writing has been published by Points in Case, Slackjaw and others. She also co-created, co-writes and costars in the WebFest selection Garbage People with Season Two premiering on Bust, as well as Cooking with Messy Bitches produced with Rizzle Studios.Emily writes and hosts the podcast Melodramatic Teen Universe with Embassy Row (Sony). She has also been a featured guest on podcasts produced by ForeverDog, WhoHaha, MaximumFun and others. She is also a nationally touring stand-up comic, seen at Comedy Cellar, NY Comedy Club, Caroline's, Gotham Comedy Club, The Comedy Store, Ice House, Flappers and UCB.Emily loves carbohydrates and feels cosmically connected to Bette Midler. She is passionate about queer representation and fat acceptance. Show less «