Skylar Lyralen Kaye, fae/they

Skylar Lyralen Kaye, fae/they, is a queer multi-hyphenate, award-winning screenwriter, playwright, poet, memoirist and novelist as well as an actor and solo performer.

Lyralen was nominated for the 1997 Pushcart Prize in fiction and has published in literary journals such as Calyx, Persona, Phoebe, Girlfriends and Happy Magazine. They have won the 2017 Moth Story Slam and 2018 Boston Story Slam as well as the 1998 Boston Amazon Poetry Slam Finals. They were on the Amazon Poetry Slam team in 2003.

In film, Lyralen’s web series, Assigned Female at Birth, received 12 Best Web awards internationally and earned them the 2021 NE Film Star Award. Saint John the Divine in Iowa, their first screenplay, won a Stowe Scholarship, was a finalist for the Black List Lab, won them a place in the 2015 inaugural Meryl Streep Writers Lab, was a semi-finalist for the 2011 Pride Plays and Films Award and a finalist for the 2011 Roy W. Dean Award. Their second screenplay, Run from Fire, was a finalist in the international Half the World Literati Awards.

Lyralen’s stage play, Ladders to God, won the 2002 Stanley and Eleanor Lipkin Prize in Playwriting and was a finalist in the 2005 Massachusetts Council of the Arts Awards. Their solo show My Preferred Pronoun Is We won both Best in Fringe and Techie Best in Fringe at the 2018 San Francisco Fringe Festival and was a finalist for the 2018 Hollywoood Fringe Festival’s Soaring Solo Artist Award.

Priest Kid is based on the award-winning screenplay Saint John the Divine in Iowa and is available on Amazon.