LIA ROMEO | WRITER
LIA ROMEO
Representation: Samara Harris,
EDUCATION:
The Juilliard School (Lila Acheson Wallace American Playwrights Program)
Princeton University (B.A. in Comparative Literature, G.P.A. 3.70)
Rutgers University (M.F.A. in Playwriting, G.P.A. 3.97)
PLAYS:
Full-Length (selected)
The Forest
National New Play Network Rolling World Premiere (on hold due to coronavirus)
O’Neill National Playwrights Conference
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
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
The Lucky Ones
Kilroys List
O’Neill National Playwrights Conference, finalist
Production: Dreamcatcher Repertory Theatre, Summit, NJ
Production: Misfits Theater Company, Boulder, CO
The Agency
Kilroys List
Commission and production, Fairleigh Dickinson University
Headliner: University of Colorado New Play Festival through the Dramatists Guild Traveling Masters Program
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)
A Perfect Fit
Production: Vermont Pride Theater, Randolph, VT
Kilroys List Honorable Mention
Bay Area Playwrights’ Festival (semi-finalist)
What Happened That Night
Production: Project Y Theatre Company, New York, NY
Production: New Origins Theatre Company, Atlanta, GA
Winner: T. Schreiber Studios New Works Project, New York, NY
LoveSick
Production: Project Y Theatre, 59E59, New York, NY
Reading: Atlantic Theatre Stage 2
American Dreamers
Production: Jersey City Theater Center, Jersey City, NJ
Production: West of 10th, New York, NY
The Grand Tour
Winner: New Jersey Playwrights Contest
Workshop production: Porch Light Productions, Glen Rock, NJ
Babies
Workshop: Lark Theatre, New York, NY
One-Act (selected)
“Baby Boom”
Productions: Project Y Theatre, coLAB Arts, Looking Glass Theatre
“Mrs. Henderson’s Cat”
Production: Hangar Theatre
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 (current)
Project Y Playwrights Group, New York, NY (current)
Art House Productions, INKubator Playwrights Group, Jersey City, NJ
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
Athena Theatre Playwrights Group, New York, NY
BMI Librettists Workshop, New York, NY
Abingdon Theatre Playwrights Group, New York, NY
New Jersey Emerging Women Playwrights Project, Madison, 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)
Visiting Guest Artist: Last Frontier Theatre Conference, Valdez, AK
MIDDSummer PlayLab at Middlebury College
University of Colorado New Play Festival
Thomas Jefferson High School
Quinnipiac University
Meredith College
Goshen College
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
