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 12 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 Meryl Streep Writers Lab administered by NYWIFT and IRIS, 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, a feminist thriller, was a finalist for the 2016 Half the World Literati Award. Their stage play, My Mother and the Nun, the story of a 70’s housewife who falls in love with her lesbian daughter’s principal, 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 of 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 as the creator/show runner of Assigned Female at Birth, a web series about some bodies, which has won best web and new media in 9 festivals as well as winning Lyralen the 2021 NE Film Star Award. You can view the series on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/c/AnotherCountryTV.
