Lila Perlman

Lila Perlman is a Seattle-bred, NYC-based playwright, actor and devised theatre maker. She was the 2024 and 2022 Playwright in Residence with Letter of Marque Theater, and is a founding member of Soft Brain Theatre Co, a modern-day Commedia Dell'Arte troupe. Lila's short play "The Golem and the Maharal’s Wife" was awarded second place nationally from the 2020 Kennedy Center’s American College Theatre Festival.

Lila Perlman is a Seattle-bred, NYC-based playwright, actor and devised theatre maker. She was the 2024 and 2022 Playwright in Residence with Letter of Marque Theater, and is a founding member of Soft Brain Theatre Co, a modern-day Commedia Dell'Arte troupe. Lila's short play "The Golem and the Maharal’s Wife" was awarded second place nationally from the 2020 Kennedy Center’s American College Theatre Festival.

Scripts

Within Their Range

by Lila Perlman

5
Cast Size
2
Genre
adventure,
drama,
fable/folktale,
horror,
mystery/thriller

Two backcountry park rangers come across a mysterious staircase deep in the wilderness of Washington's Cascade Mountains. They've heard the warning never to go on these staircases, but find themselves mysteriously drawn to it...

Two backcountry park rangers come across a mysterious staircase deep in the wilderness of Washington's Cascade Mountains. They've heard the warning never to go on these staircases, but find themselves mysteriously drawn to it...

The Golem and The Maharal's Wife

by Lila Perlman

1
Cast Size
2
Genre
adaptation,
drama,
fable/folktale,
movement/physical

Based on a Jewish folktale, the story follows a young female Golem, a creature shaped from clay and bound to obey her maker's commands, who finds herself alone for the first time in her life and craving freedom. The wife of the man who made the golem finds herself faced with the decision whether to help the creature find that freedom--and perhaps find her own.

Based on a Jewish folktale, the story follows a young female Golem, a creature shaped from clay and bound to obey her maker's commands, who finds herself alone for the first time in her life and craving freedom. The wife of the man who made the golem finds herself faced with the decision whether to help the creature find that freedom--and perhaps find her own.

The South Room

by Lila Perlman

Cast Size
2
Genre
drama,
period

In 1920, during the burgeoning of second wave feminism, a young wife and her husband grapple with marriage as a social concept versus the reality of their relationship.

In 1920, during the burgeoning of second wave feminism, a young wife and her husband grapple with marriage as a social concept versus the reality of their relationship.