Lilly is a queer Brooklyn-based writer. A zillenial raised in the final days of Hollywood, the child of a film industry father and a stand up comedian mother. If you’ve seen Karen’s Comedy Career Act II, you’ve seen a bit of Lilly’s work as a script doctor for hire. They are also an MFA-carrying educator and a reader for a few Institutions. Here you can learn a little about their work.
Former members of a winning college rowing team reunite to celebrate their teammate’s success as the current coach. Under the expected drama– old crushes, former rivalries, and “who’s winning the reunion”– lie deeper wounds, and a collective traumatic experience from over a decade ago will resurface and demand they face it as adults.
A playwright and self-proclaimed “Gaylor” takes us through a presentation on why they iare convinced that Taylor Swift is gay (and possibly already coming out). But what begins as an exploration of Taylor’s career, public life, and possible secrets is interrupted by interludes from the playwright’s own life, until they’re faced not with the truth about Taylor, but instead with the reality of why they so badly need her to be gay.
It’s 2011 in Upstate New York, and nine freshmen women sit in a boat together every morning at 6am on their collegiate rowing team, competing with each other up for the fastest times, lowest body weights, and most influential seats, until race day when they are asked to put it all aside and row together as comrades in one boat. Crew would be chaotic enough on its own, but off the water, their coach shows up at their parties and drinks with them, makes lewd comments about their bodies, and is allegedly sleeping with one of them. So when one rower secretly rats him out for allegedly sleeping with a student and is seemingly rewarded with the best seat in the boat when he’s fired, her motives come into question– as does her position of privilege on the team. Over the course of their freshman year, All Eight examines how the world of collegiate sports drives these young women with varied power to fight to win– races, love, power– at the expense of even each other.
ALL EIGHT at AADA, 2024.
Best Friends introduces us to Elle Summers—a “walking college application” to most people, “loser” to some—who can’t wait to trade suburban Los Angeles and an abusive household for Harvard and grown up conversations. That is, until her friend Matthew Durand asks her to be the “clean-up crew” to his soon-to-be ex-girlfriend Haley Moore and what begins as an awkward evening of crying turns into Haley and Elle spending every moment together. And maybe more? That depends on who you ask. Tackling sexuality, high school culture, and social media communication/lack thereof, Best Friends shows us how coming out in the Internet era hasn’t gotten any easier.
Nine freshmen women rowers compete with each other for the best seats in the best boats, until race day when they put competition aside and row as one. But rumor is their coach is sleeping with one of them, and the others won’t stand for the resulting favor... er, exploitation.
Initially written as a play, this limited series tells the story of this team’s freshman year in a serialized format.
Lulu Simmons, a naïve, recently bullied young Jewish girl, enrolls in a mixed-gender LA Valley Catholic institution after being called a dyke at her public middle school, in an attempt, perhaps, to prove them wrong.
Comic book artist and longtime “spirit guide” to bi-curious girls’ first foray into lesbianism, Logan has just been left at the altar when her comic "superhero" rendition of the event goes viral and she suddenly has a chance at a graphic novel deal. Living as the Lesbian Spirit Guide in real life is less than glamorous; Logan still clearly hopes her spirit guidees will fall in love with her– especially her new editor of her graphic novel.
After thirty years at the helm of the Manhattan Playwrights Theatre, Katherine Lambert finds out the board is planning to push her out to make room for a “fresh perspective.” Desperate to retain her position, Katherine decides to steal a smaller theater’s bombastic play in a bid to try and gain new relevance, refusing to believe that the movement that once made her one of the only female artistic directors in the industry is the same that now clamors for her to step down.
Logan, a college runner recovering from an injury begins a secret relationship with her closeted friend, Karley and what at first looks like a closeted girl refusing to come out soon becomes terrifying– what if she imagined the whole relationship? Soon Logan’s pushed to the brink of sanity, and, one night, to the bedroom of Karley’s boyfriend, carrying a handgun.
In this new radio program created by Woke City's Ministry of Progressive Affairs, feminist tweeter/Social Justice Warrior Hairy Legs Hannah tackles issues of discrimination, inequality, and free speech to teach kids about the liberal agenda– or she would, if she had any interest in following the script read by the white, cisgender male narrator. With her roommate/rival Shaven Legs Shawn constantly trying to steal her spotlight, and her sister Astounding Ashley undermining her at every turn, Hairy Legs Hannah may not be the hero Woke City needs, but the one it deserves.
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