Assigned Female at Birth, Pilot

Lyralen Kaye, AFTRA/SAG, received their MFA Theatre from Sarah Lawrence College in 2002, where they trained in directing for the first time, focusing on devised theatre. Their directing credits include (among others), the short film Triangles Are More Interesting, the teaser for Saint John the Divine in Iowa…and in theater, Prom—devised theatre, co-directed with Weylin Symes, Artistic Director of Stoneham Theatre, Rescue, Lemon Zinger, Measuring Matthew, An Illuminating History of the Theft and Burial of the Bones of Mr. Waterhouse Hawkins (devised theatre, AD to the fabulous Dan Hurlin), Female Geriatric Zombies Unite and Subzero. Lyralen is the winner of the Best in Fringe San Francisco (2018), the Writers Lab funded by Meryl Streep (2015), the Moth (2017), the Boston Story Slam (2017), the Stanley and Eleanor Lipkin Prize in Playwriting (2002), was a finalist for the Massachusetts Council of the Arts Awards in Playwriting (2005), was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in Fiction (1997), was a finalist for the Black List Women in Film (2018), for the Half the World Literati in Screenwriting (2016), Roy W. Dean Awards in Screenwriting (2011) and a semi-finalist for the Women’s Work Film and Play Awards (2011) as well as winning the Boston Amazon Poetry Slam Finals. They combined their expertise in devising work with remote filming techniques to create Assigned Female at Birth, a Web Series about Some Bodies.