About Lyralen Kaye
Lyralen Kaye, fae/they, SAG-AFTRA, MFA in Theatre, Sarah Lawrence College, is a gender fluid screenwriter, playwright, novelist and poet. Their pandemic web series, Assigned Female at Birth, has won 14 awards including the NE Film Star award for Kaye. Their first screenplay, Saint John the Divine in Iowa, about the intersection of radical queer politics with an Episcoplian family in the Midwest won them a place in the Stowe Story Labs in 2022 as well as the Meryl Streep Writers Lab administered by NYWIFT and IRIS in 2015, and was a semi-finalist for the 2011 Pride Plays and Films Awards and a finalist for the 2011 Roy W. Dean Award. Their second screenplay, Run from Fire, a feminist thriller, was a finalist for the 2016 Half the World Literati Award. Their 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. Lyralen has also been nominated for the 1997 Pushcart Prize in fiction and won the 2017 Moth Slam, the 2018 Boston Story Slam, the 1998 Boston Amazon Poetry Super Slam Finals, the Moth Story Slam, the Boston Story Slam and Best in the San Francisco Fringe for their show My Preferred Pronoun Is WE. Their poetry, fiction and creative non-fiction have been published in literary journals nationwide. They are currently working on a memoir. You can view their web series on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/c/AnotherCountryTV.
