Lily Houghton

Lily Houghton

Lily Houghton is a playwright born and raised in Manhattan. Her plays have been produced/developed at MCC Theater Company, Atlantic Theater Company, New York Stage and Film, Ensemble Studio Theatre, The Flea Theater, NYU, Seattle Repertory Theater, New Harmony Project, 24 Hour Plays on Broadway, Normal Ave, Yale, Contemporary American Theater Festival, Jermyn Street Theatre in London as well as dozens of...
Lily Houghton is a playwright born and raised in Manhattan. Her plays have been produced/developed at MCC Theater Company, Atlantic Theater Company, New York Stage and Film, Ensemble Studio Theatre, The Flea Theater, NYU, Seattle Repertory Theater, New Harmony Project, 24 Hour Plays on Broadway, Normal Ave, Yale, Contemporary American Theater Festival, Jermyn Street Theatre in London as well as dozens of colleges throughout the country. She has won two Sloan Foundation Science Grants, the Elizabeth George Grant and is the recipient of Launch Commission from the Atlantic Theater Company. She has been a proud member of the Obie Award winning Youngblood playwrights group since she was twenty-two. She is a member of NYTW’s Usual Suspects. Lily currently sits on the board of The New Harmony Project.

In television, Lily currently has projects in development with Dakota and Elle Fanning's Lewellen, Mark Gordon, AMC Studios, Gia Coppola’s Detour, Utopia, Elliot Page’s Pageboy, and Amazon with Blake Lively's B for Effort.

Lily just wrote the film adaptation of the novel Competitive Grieving for Emma Roberts’ Belletrist and Rebelle Media. Diablo Cody and Mason Novack are producing Lily on a film adaption of one of her plays. She is currently adapting another one of her plays for Plan B Entertainment.

In the podcast space, Lily currently has a project in development with Temple Hill for Audible. Gia Coppola will direct.

Plays

  • Dear by Lily Houghton
    Recommendations: 3
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    4
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    Genre: dark comedy, drama + 5 more
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    Keyword: college, female rage + 4 more
    Genre: dark comedy, drama, experimental, mystery/thriller, political, tragedy, young audiences
    Keyword: college, female rage, contemporary mystery, American college student, Liberal Arts, Campus sexual assault
    April has disappeared from her college campus, and her three friends convene in their dorm’s shared bathroom to trade theories about her whereabouts and attacks against each other. When April’s paper on female serial killers begins to bare striking similarities to their behavior, the students are forced to face their own secrets and rage.
  • Of the woman came the beginning of sin, and through her we all die. by Lily Houghton
    Recommendations: 2
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    5
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    Genre: adaptation, dark comedy + 2 more
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    Keyword: Cults, retail + 5 more
    Genre: adaptation, dark comedy, experimental, tragedy
    Keyword: Cults, retail, garden of eden, cats, female friendship, female rage, femme
    A retail/cult/feminist adaptation of the Garden of Eden set in the windowless basement of a Free People store.
  • When A Great Man Dies It Is Sad by Lily Houghton
    Cast: 
    6
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    Genre: dark comedy, drama + 6 more
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    Keyword: coping with death and grief, American Theatre + 3 more
    Genre: dark comedy, drama, experimental, fable/folktale, horror, immersive, movement/physical, tragedy
    Keyword: coping with death and grief, American Theatre, off-Broadway, dad and daughter, abandoned theater
    When the artistic director of a well known theater dies, the stage hands and his depressed daughter are left to dismantle the set left behind from his favorite play.
  • My Brother Is Better At Love Than Me by Lily Houghton
    Cast: 
    5
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    Genre: comedy, movement/physical + 2 more
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    Keyword: Summer Camp, summer love + 5 more
    Genre: comedy, movement/physical, romantic comedy, young audiences
    Keyword: Summer Camp, summer love, first love, neurodiverse, autism, sibling relationship, teenagers
    At a neuro-diverse summer camp tucked in the woods of the Catskills, teenage camper Hank gets swept up in his first summer love-- immediately transfixed by fellow camper and dog lover Ella. The only problem-- his bossy yet rebellious younger sister Ruth has decided to join the camp as a counselor this year, really hindering Hank's studliness and getting herself into all sorts of trouble with toxic...
    At a neuro-diverse summer camp tucked in the woods of the Catskills, teenage camper Hank gets swept up in his first summer love-- immediately transfixed by fellow camper and dog lover Ella. The only problem-- his bossy yet rebellious younger sister Ruth has decided to join the camp as a counselor this year, really hindering Hank's studliness and getting herself into all sorts of trouble with toxic lifeguard Roger, who is unfortunately afraid of the water and fish of all kinds. Based on her brother's real life first summer love, My Brother Is Better At Love Than Me highlights a new kind of romantic lead, ultimately revealing which sibling is actually teaching the other the most important lesson of all-- how to love.
  • Plays for Rosie by Lily Houghton
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    2–12
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy + 3 more
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    Keyword: American college student, college actors + 2 more
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy, drama, satire, young audiences
    Keyword: American college student, college actors, cat, short play collection
    A collection of short plays following students living on the same dorm floor at a liberal arts college. These plays include Scary Play, The Interesting Girl, Please No More Parties, and Rosie. They can be performed together or torn apart.
  • something/someone/something/someone by Lily Houghton
    Recommendations: 3
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    4
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    Genre: dark comedy, experimental + 2 more
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    Keyword: birth control, the pill
    Genre: dark comedy, experimental, political, satire
    Keyword: birth control, the pill
    Based on trial #07760234