Lane Michael Stanley
Lane Michael Stanley is a director, playwright, filmmaker, and producer, as well as the co-founder of Secretly Famous Productions, along with Lowell Blank. Their award-winning debut feature film ADDICT NAMED HAL was distributed through Freestyle Digital Media after playing festivals including Austin Film Festival, Santa Barbara International Film Festival, and Dances with Films and is now available on all major...
Lane Michael Stanley is a director, playwright, filmmaker, and producer, as well as the co-founder of Secretly Famous Productions, along with Lowell Blank. Their award-winning debut feature film ADDICT NAMED HAL was distributed through Freestyle Digital Media after playing festivals including Austin Film Festival, Santa Barbara International Film Festival, and Dances with Films and is now available on all major VOD platforms. They have had pieces produced and read by 19 theaters in 8 states and Australia, including The Barter Theater, Kitchen Dog Theater, and Island City Stage. Their award-winning short films have shown at many festivals, including Outfest, Sidewalk, Reeling, and Seattle Queer Film Festival. They have been a commissioned artist and/or fellow with Art with Impact, Ground Floor Theatre, Lambda Literary, and coLAB Arts. They have been developed at the HBMG Foundation’s National Winter Playwrights Retreat and the Valdez Theater Conference. Lane has won Best Director from Baltimore City Paper's Best of Baltimore, The Bad Oracle, and DC Metro Theatre Arts, and received the Mayor's Individual Artist Award. They were featured in the New York Times and USA Today for their direction of a grunge-era, gender-bending Hamlet. Lane holds an MFA in Directing from the University of Texas at Austin.
Lane is currently the Resident Artist with coLAB Arts and Mission First Housing Group, where they are creating art directly with residents of two permanent supportive housing developments in Edison, NJ as they recover from houselessness. Their residency runs from July 2023-April 2024.