LIA ROMEO | WRITER
LIA ROMEO
Agent: Chris Till, Verve Talent & Literary Agency, ctill@vervetla.com
Manager: Craig Brody, Map Point Management cbrody@mappointmgmt.com
EDUCATION:
The Juilliard School (Lila Acheson Wallace American Playwrights Program)
Rutgers University (M.F.A. in Playwriting, G.P.A. 3.97)
Princeton University (B.A. in Comparative Literature, G.P.A. 3.70)
PLAYS:
Full-Length (selected)
The Forest
National New Play Network Rolling World Premiere (cancelled due to coronavirus)
O’Neill National Playwrights Conference
World Premiere, NJ Rep, April 2022
Kilroys List
Workshop: Florida Studio Theatre
Sitting and Talking: A Play for Zoom
Production: Mile Square Theatre, Hoboken, NJ, feat. Dan Lauria and Wendie Malick
Production: Laguna Playhouse, Laguna Beach, CA
Production: Sweetwine Productions, Valdez, AK
Production: Dreamcatcher Repertory Theatre, Summit, NJ
Production: Durango PlayFest, Durango, CO
Production: Cyrano Theatre, Anchorage, AK
Production: Seven Devils Playwrights Conference, McCall, ID
Production: Mildred’s Umbrella, Houston, TX
The Agency
Workshop: La Jolla Playhouse, DNA Festival
Workshop: Durango PlayFest
Kilroys List
Commission and production, Fairleigh Dickinson University
Headliner: University of Colorado New Play Festival through the Dramatists Guild Traveling Masters Program
The Lucky Ones
Kilroys List
O’Neill National Playwrights Conference, finalist
Production: Dreamcatcher Repertory Theatre, Summit, NJ
Production: Misfits Theater Company, Boulder, CO
Readings: The Blank Theatre, EST/ LA, Ammunition Theatre Company
Greek Tragedy
O’Neill National Playwrights Conference, finalist
Commission: The Farm Theatre's College Collaboration Project
Productions: Centre College, Wells College
Still
Workshop: LAByrinth Theatre
Readings: The Juilliard School, The Road Theatre
Green Whales
Production: Unicorn Theatre, Kansas City, MO
Production: MCS Theatre, New York, NY
Production: Forward Flux, Seattle, WA
Production: Renegade Theatre Experiment, San Jose, CA
Workshop: NNPN MFA Playwrights Workshop
Finalist: PlayPenn
Published by Broadway Play Publishing
Connected
Production: Project Y Theatre Company, 59E59, New York, NY
Commission and production: HotCity Theatre, St. Louis, MO
Awards: NYIT Award for Outstanding Full-Length Script (nominee), St. Louis Theatre Circle Award for Best New Play (nominee)
Workshop: Orlando Shakespeare Theatre’s PlayFest
Published by Playscripts
Ghost Story
Featured Play: Durango PlayFest
Readings: Queens Theatre New American Voices Series, Playhouse on Park, New Jersey Repertory Theatre
Reality
Production, HotCity Theatre, St. Louis, MO
Production, Fairleigh Dickinson University, Madison, NJ
Published by Playscripts
Awards: ATCA/Steinberg Award (nominee), Susan Smith Blackburn Prize (nominee), HotCity Theatre New Play Festival (winner), St. Louis Theatre Circle Award for Best New Play (nominee)
Hungry
Production: Unicorn Theatre, Kansas City, MO
Production: Stillwater Theatre, Raleigh, NC
Production: The Skeleton Rep, New York, NY
Right Place, Right Time
O’Neill National Playwrights Conference, finalist
Production: Renegade Theatre Experiment, San Jose, CA
Production: Stillwater Theatre, Raleigh, NC
Production: XPressions Performing Arts Network, Baltimore, MD
Published by Broadway Play Publishing
Awards: Alliance/Kandeda Graduate Playwriting Competition (runner-up), Silicon Valley Award for Best New Play (winner)
Yoga With Jillian
Production: Project Y Theatre, ART/NY, New York, NY (upcoming)
Production: Edinburgh Fringe Festival (upcoming)
Production: Town Hall Theatre, Middlebury, VT
Reading: Momentum Festival of New Works at City Theatre, Pittsburgh, PA
The Golden Door
Commissioned by Art House Productions, Jersey City, NJ
Residency: New Jersey Play Lab
Readings: The Juilliard School, Vivid Stage
LoveSick
Production: Project Y Theatre, 59E59, New York, NY
Reading: Atlantic Theatre Stage 2
Babies
Workshop: Lark Theatre, New York, NY
Short (selected)
“The Presentation”
City Theatre National Short Playwriting Award, winner
Selected for Dramatists’ Play Service Best 10-Minute Plays
“Yog Sothoth”
Productions: Samuel French Festival, 3 Graces Theatre Company, Little Fish Theatre, Luna Stage
Awards: Heideman Award (finalist), City Theatre National Short Playwriting Award (finalist)
RESIDENCIES, AWARDS AND MEMBERSHIPS:
Lila Acheson Wallace American Playwrights Program, The Juilliard School (current)
The Farm Theater College Collaboration Project, commissioned playwright
Parent/Caregiver Playwrights Group, founding member, New York, NY
Project Y Playwrights Group, founding member, New York, NY
National New Play Network Emerging Playwright-in-Residence, Writers Theatre of NJ
New Jersey Individual Artist Fellowship Winner, New Jersey State Council for the Arts
BMI Librettists Workshop, New York, NY
Art House Productions, INKubator Playwrights Group, Jersey City, NJ
LITERARY AND NEW PLAY DEVELOPMENT WORK:
Associate Artistic Director, Project Y Theatre Company (current)
New Play Coordinator, Jersey City Theater Center (former)
TEACHING AND GUEST ARTIST WORK:
Dramatists Guild Foundation Traveling Masters Program, master playwright, University of Colorado
Primary Stages/ESPA, instructor (playwriting)
Fairleigh Dickinson University, M.A. program in creative writing, instructor (playwriting)
Molloy College, B.F.A. program, instructor (playwriting)
New Jersey Play Lab, instructor/dramaturg (PlayGym)
OTHER WRITING:
11,002 Things to Be Miserable About, humor book published by Abrams Image
35,000 copies sold to date nationally and internationally
Dating the Devil, novel published by Belle Books/Bell Bridge Books
Amazon bestseller
Optioned for development as a TV movie with Vast Entertainment and ABC Family
HBO Access Fellowship, semi-finalist (top 30 out of 3600), 2017
