Lane Michael Stanley (he/they) is a transgender writer and director making community-embedded work around queerness, healing, grief, recovery, restorative justice, and housing insecurity. Their plays and films have been presented at 20 theaters and 33 film festivals in 22 states, in addition to soup kitchens, shelters, addiction treatment centers, meditation gardens, and San Quentin State Prison. They have been a commissioned artist with Ground Floor Theatre and Dance Camera West; studied creative writing with Tin House Winter & Summer Workshops, Kenyon Review Writers Workshop, and Lambda Literary Writers Retreat; won awards from the Film Fund, Baltimore City Paper, and Creative Baltimore Fund; received film grants from Art with Impact, Queen Anne’s County Cultural Arts Division, Maryland State Arts Council, and Austin Cultural Arts Division; been the Resident Artist with coLAB Arts and Mission First Housing Group and LA County’s Pathway Home Initiative; and hold an MFA in Directing from the University of Texas at Austin. For more information, please visit www.lanemichaelstanley.com.