Lia Romeo

Lia Romeo is a second-year playwriting fellow at Juilliard. Her play The Forest was developed at the O’Neill Playwrights Conference and was scheduled for a NNPN rolling world premiere (cancelled due to the coronavirus); it premiered at NJ Rep in 2022. Her play Sitting and Talking, starring Dan Lauria and Wendie Malick, was produced online by companies around the country during the pandemic. Other plays have been produced off-Broadway at 59E59 as well as regionally around the country. Four of her plays have been recognized by the Kilroys List. She was the winner of City Theatre’s National Short Playwriting Award, and has been a nominee or a finalist for the Heideman Award, the L. Arnold Weissberger Award, the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, the Kesselring Prize, and the Steinberg Award. Her plays are published by TRW, Broadway Licensing, and Smith & Kraus. She is the associate artistic director with Project Y Theatre Company, and she teaches playwriting at Primary Stages/ESPA and in the MA program in creative writing at Fairleigh Dickinson University. She earned her BA from Princeton and her MFA in playwriting from Rutgers/MGSA.