Better Sweater is the screenwriting duo Emilie Wapnick and Rena Hundert.

We’re Montreal-born writers, longtime friends, and creative conspirators. We became roommates in university and quickly discovered our lives had been circling each other for years: same neighborhood, parents working at the same organization, even overlapping family roots near Minsk and Pinsk in Eastern Europe. Since then, we’ve written scripts, made music under our band name Tip of the Hat, and built a storytelling partnership rooted in shared history, emotional resonance, and offbeat humor. Emilie brings the feels, Rena brings the comedy, and together we tell stories with wit, warmth, and a touch of endearing awkwardness.

Emilie’s official bio

Emilie Wapnick is an award-winning author and community-builder interested in thoughtful, coming-of-age (at any age) storytelling. As a screenwriter, Emilie has received two overall scores of 8 on The Black List, placed as a finalist in several screenwriting competitions and signed shopping agreements to develop three pilots with two production companies.

Emilie’s TED talk, Why Some of Us Don’t Have One True Calling, has been viewed 9 million times. Their book, How to Be Everything, was published by HarperCollins. It has been translated into 13 languages and won a Nautilus Book Award. Emilie runs the popular website Puttylike and has been featured in The New York Times, Forbes, New York Magazine, BBC and The Atlantic.

Emilie holds a Bachelor of Arts in Communication Studies with a specialization in Film Production and a Bachelor of Civil and Common Law from the Faculty of Law at McGill University. They are a dual citizen (Canadian and US), and live in British Columbia with their wife and bug-loving toddler.

Rena’s official bio

Rena Hundert is an accomplished comedian, writer and musician. She has two comedy albums available on all platforms, one of which is currently streaming in SiriusXM, as well as a music album. Rena has also been a showrunner’s assistant on IFC’s co-production with MUSE and Just For Laugh’s Bullet in the Face. She is a graduate of two theatre schools, is in the advanced program at UCB LA, and has taken classes with The Groundlings, Miles Stroth and Kevin Macdonald. She has gone viral online many times, mostly for tweets, and once for doing an impression of a toe. She has toured internationally and is a payed regular at the Hollywood Improv. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and toddler.