Emma Rosa Went is a Brooklyn-based theatre director who makes new and classic-text plays. She has developed work in New York with The Public Theater, Manhattan Theatre Club, Ars Nova, NYTW, Red Bull/TFANA, Playwrights Realm, The Tank, The Brick, and many other venues. Regional work includes Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival (Tour, '23;) Opera House Arts, Connecticut Shakespeare Festival, Scranton Shakespeare Festival, Pacific Playwrights Festival at South Coast Rep, and more.

Emma has been under commission at Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival, and has received residencies from Public Shakespeare Initiative, Mercury Store, Barn Arts Collective, & Drama League. She is a former Drama League Classical Directing Fellow, and a finalist for the SDCF Barbara Whitman Award. She directs a lot of Shakespeare, and she collaborates extensively with her partner Else Went, who is currently the Tow Foundation Playwright in Residence at the Public Theater. Emma went to Sarah Lawrence.