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Emily Wachtel is a writer, producer, and actress. Wachtel demonstrated her diversity as originator, co-writer, producer, and actor in her semi-autobiographical feature film Lucky Them starring Toni Collette, Thomas Haden Church, and Oliver Platt. The film, which will be screened at the Toronto International Film Festival this September, is loosely based on Wachtel's personal experience in the worlds of music and dating. Besides Lucky Them, the documentary on playwright, actor, and director Sam Shepard called Shepard and Dark was executive produced by Wachtel and was featured at The Cannes International Film Festival in May of this year. Emily has also appeared as an actor in theatre, film, and television including the pilot of Alias for ABC, and is a member of the Actor's Studio. As a writer, she wrote for several publications and had a column in the "Fairfield Weekly" under the pseudonym Ellie Klug (the name of the main character in Lucky Them). Emily credits her interest in writing to mentors and novelists Dani Shapiro and Jim Shepard, with whom she studied at the Sirenland Writer's Conference in Positano, Italy. Wachtel is also involved in several philanthropic endeavors and is on the international Board of Governors for Serious Fun Networks, a non-profit that umbrellas all of Paul Newman's camps for children with cancer and other blood-related diseases. She is a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College and The Neighborhood Playhouse school of the Theatre where she studied with the late renowned acting teacher, Sanford Meisner. - IMDb Mini Biography By: Emily Wachtel