Lia Romeo is a fellow in the Lila Acheson Wallace American Playwrights Program at Juilliard. Her play The Forest was developed at the O’Neill Playwrights Conference, and was scheduled to receive a NNPN rolling world premiere in the upcoming season (cancelled due to the coronavirus). This and three of her other plays have been recognized by the Kilroys List. Her play for Zoom, Sitting and Talking, premiered at Mile Square Theatre in 2020, featuring TV and Broadway veterans Dan Lauria and Wendie Malick. Other plays have been produced Off-Broadway and regionally around the country at theaters such as 59E59, Unicorn Theatre, New Jersey Rep, HotCity Theatre, and many others. Her plays are published by Broadway Play Publishing, Playscripts, Dramatists Play Service, and Smith & Kraus. She is also the author of a novel, Dating the Devil (BelleBooks), and a humor book, 11,002 Things to Be Miserable About (Abrams Image), which has sold over 35,000 copies. She teaches playwriting in the MA program in creative writing at Fairleigh Dickinson University, and has also taught workshops through the Dramatist Guild’s Traveling Masters Program. She is the Associate Artistic Director at Project Y Theatre Company, and the founder and coordinator of the Project Y Playwrights Group.
Lia Romeo