Lilly is a queer writer from Los Angeles living in Brooklyn. She produced and co-wrote Hairy Legs Hannah’s Feminist Quarter-Hour which is available on most podcast apps. She’s currently working on a new play, Why Taylor Swift is Gay, and looking forward to her upcoming readings of All Eight with the Lanford Wilson New Play Festival and Best Friends with Theatre [Untitled] this summer. When she’s not writing, she boulders, runs half marathons, makes latte art in a bougie specialty coffee shop, and walks dogs.
Lilly is also a script doctor for Fountain Ave. Productions’ Amsterdam Ave., and is available for script coverage/consulting on other projects. Get in touch for rates!
Education
New York University Tisch school of the arts
M.F.A. Dramatic Writing
Graduated May 2017
University of Rochester
B.A. Creative Writing/Political Science
Graduated May 2015
Awards
2021 Lanford Wilson New American Play Festival Official Selection
2020 Blue Ink Playwriting Award Semifinalist
2019 National playwrights conference semifinalist
2019 bechdel group finalist
2018 relentless award special consideration
2018 Rita and Burton Goldberg Dramatic Writing Award
2017 DDW Outstanding writing in TV and Play AwarD
2017 Austin Film Festival Semifinalist
2017 LA Indie Film Festival Finalist
2017 LA Femme Film Festival Finalist
2017 Fusion Film Festival Finalist
Projects
Why taylor Swift is Gay
Full length Play
A playwright and self-proclaimed “Gaylor” takes us through a presentation on why she is 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 her own life, until she’s faced not with the truth about Taylor, but instead with the reality of why she so badly needs her to be gay.
All Eight
Half Hour Limited Series
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.
Comeback
Half Hour Comedy
Outspoken soccer legend and recently canceled celebrity Mae Rabbit must reckon with her own unlikability while trying to repair her tarnished image in her worst nightmare: middle America.
Rabbits
Hour Drama Pilot
Jaded writer Ray believes investigative journalism is dead, and would rather be a literal task rabbit than a pawn for mainstream media. But when she’s offered a secret position as an elite task rabbit for the world’s most powerful, she believes she could take the whole thing down– if money and power doesn’t change her.
You’ll Know When You Get There
A Play for Zoom
Amid a global pandemic, a woman leaves her fiancé in New York for her Catholic family’s house to bunker down, unsure of when she’ll return. As the virus spreads and the end date for the quarantine gets farther and farther away, her videochat sessions with her girlfriend and her family’s presence cannot remain separate anymore, and she’s forced to reconcile the world she came from with the world she’s about to commit herself to forever.
Development History
In development with The Bechdel Group for January 2021 presentation.
Excerpt presented as a part of Normal Ave.’s Quaranstream in May 2020.
Co-written with Francisco Mendoza.
Directed by Francisco Mendoza
Produced by Lilly Camp
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.
Awards
Austin Film Festival Semifinalist, 2017.
BEST FRIENDs
Full Length Play
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 of age in the Internet era hasn’t gotten any easier.
Development History
(Former draft– Couch Nights) Reading by Theatre East on June 19, 2017 as an official NYC Pride Event. Directed by Judson Jones.
Rita and Burton Goldberg Dramatic Writing Award workshop/reading 2018. Directed by Alex Keegan.
Theatre [Untitled] Summer Reading Series 2021.
Awards
Special Consideration for the Relentless Award, 2018.
Winner of the Rita and Burton Goldberg Dramatic Writing Award, 2018.
Second Rounder in the Austin Film Festival, 2018.
All Eight
Full length Play
Nine freshmen women sit in a boat together every morning at 6am on their collegiate rowing team, competing with each other up for best 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.
Development History
Spring 2019 developmental reading at Brave New World Rep.
Normal Ave NAPSeries Reading; February 2019. Directed by Chiara Klein.
Lanford Wilson New American Play Festival Official Selection 2021.
AWARDS
National Playwrights Conference Semi-finalist, 2019.
Bechdel Group Finalist, 2019.
Heathens
Hour Drama Pilot
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.
Awards
Fusion Film Festival Finalist, 2017.
NexTV Writing and Pitch Competition Quarter-finalist, 2017.
New York Short Film and Screenplay Festival Finalist, 2017.
LA Indie Film Festival Finalist, 2017.
Rhode Island Film Festival Semi-finalist, 2017.
LA Femme Film Festival Finalist, 2017.
The Lesbian Spirit Guide
Half Hour Comedy Pilot
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.
Awards
ScreenCraft Pilot Launch Competition Quarter-finalist, 2017.
Mostly Naked
Ten Minute Play
When two friends change in a locker room, they are forced to confront the politics of nudity and Elle, who is openly gay, is challenged by Karley, who is straight, to relieve her insecurities by stripping down, literally.
Development History
Staged reading in the NYU Tisch 10-Minute Play festival in 2016.
Produced by the Torrent Theatre Company in July 2017.
Awards
Theater Masters Festival Finalist, 2016.