ORIGIN STORY

Once upon a time, a fourth grader named Lila Rose went on a band trip and saw A CHORUS LINE at The Westchester Dinner Theater. She was entranced. She loved the lights, the singing, the dancing, and how everyone got to tell their story. So, on that fateful day, with zero knowledge of what it means to be an adult in the theatre, Lila Rose signed away her soul.*

As a teenager, Lila Rose fell in love for the first time— with playwriting. Her first play was a comedy.** She remembers standing in the back of her high school theatre watching her play and listening to the audience laugh. After that holy moment, she never looked back. She wrote and wrote. She wrote historical plays in college, poetic plays in grad school and comedies after she got married. She wrote superhero plays once she was a mother. At some point, she realized that all of her plays were queer and that she was queer too.*** Like any good heroine, Lila Rose won several sword fights and beheaded many rejection letters. Some of her plays premiered Off-Broadway and others premiered in a tiny basement theater where a rainstorm could knock out the lights.

These days, Lila Rose lives in Somerville, Massachusettes with her family.**** She’s written over 20 plays. With one exception, they’ve all been produced. She also writes musicals and articles and she’s working on her first novel. She still loves writing, but like all great marriages, Lila Rose and her writing have changed each other. Much like Lila Rose, her plays have gotten funnier, angrier, and more Jewish.

If you are a theater producing one of Lila Rose’s plays and you came here in search of a more professional bio, please click on the link below.

*To this day, Lila Rose has the same reverence for an opening number that some might have for certain hymns or Kol Nidre.

**It was called BUSY SIGNAL and it was about a couple named Carol and Phil who refuse to answer the phone. If you are interested in producing this one act gem, please contact Lila Rose’s mother, Alice Jo, or her high school theater teacher, Mr. Fred.

***It must be noted that for many many years Lila Rose’s dear friend Lauren, has been gently observing the number of queer characters in Lila Rose’s plays.

****Jarrett, her marine ecologist husband who loves to cook (thank god), Hailey, her curious daughter who loves to swim, sew and dance and, of course, Kaylee, an intensely needy siamese cat who probably needs therapy.