About

Born and bred in New York City, Lillian is a theater artist primarily interested in site-specific and minimalist performances that highlight the role of the audience in live theater. She has developed new plays with playwrights, directors, and devising ensembles for a variety of companies and venues, including Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, Theatre for a New Audience, Soho Rep, Ars Nova, Clubbed Thumb, Dixon Place, Culture Project, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Columbia University, UglyRhino, Galapagos Art Space, and the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center National Playwrights Festival, among many others. She is the founder and Artistic Director of The Motor Company – a theater company dedicated to making accessible new work using public spaces as the impetus for story-telling and theatrical events. She is an alumna of Brooklyn College (MFA), Vassar College (BA), and the National Theater Institute, a former directing intern with Actors Theatre of Louisville, and a member of the Lincoln Center Directors Lab, the Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab, and the inaugural Clubbed Thumb Directing Fellowship.

As a teacher, she has worked at Brooklyn College, Professional Performing Arts High School, National Theater Institute, Playwright’s Horizon School at NYU, and the McCarter Theatre. During the month of July, she leads The West Kortright Centre’s Shakespeare in the Valley youth program for teenagers.