Lia Romeo
Lia Romeo’s plays include THE FOREST (O’Neill Playwrights’ Conference, Kilroys’ List), CONNECTED (59E59, NYIT Award nominee), GREEN WHALES (Unicorn Theatre, Weissberger Award nominee), REALITY (HotCity Theatre, Steinberg Award nominee), RIGHT PLACE, RIGHT TIME (O’Neill finalist, Renegade Theatre Experiment), THE LUCKY ONES (O’Neill finalist, Dreamcatcher Rep), LOVESICK (59E59), HUNGRY (Unicorn Theatre), BABIES...
Lia Romeo’s plays include THE FOREST (O’Neill Playwrights’ Conference, Kilroys’ List), CONNECTED (59E59, NYIT Award nominee), GREEN WHALES (Unicorn Theatre, Weissberger Award nominee), REALITY (HotCity Theatre, Steinberg Award nominee), RIGHT PLACE, RIGHT TIME (O’Neill finalist, Renegade Theatre Experiment), THE LUCKY ONES (O’Neill finalist, Dreamcatcher Rep), LOVESICK (59E59), HUNGRY (Unicorn Theatre), BABIES (Lark Playwrights Workshop), and others. She was the 2019 winner of City Theatre’s National Short Playwriting Award. She received a 2018 Individual Artist Fellowship in playwriting from the New Jersey State Council for the Arts, and was the National New Play Network Emerging Playwright-in-Residence at Writers Theatre of New Jersey. Her plays are published by Broadway Play Publishing, Playscripts, Dramatists Play Service, and Smith & Kraus. She earned her B.A. from Princeton University and her M.F.A. in playwriting from Rutgers/MGSA, and she teaches in the MA program in creative writing at Fairleigh Dickinson University.