Lyralen Kaye, AEA, SAG-AFTRA, MFA, Sarah Lawrence College, is an award-winning queer, disabled, screenwriter, actor, director playwright, novelist and poet. Their first screenplay, Saint John the Divine in Iowa, about the intersection of radical queer politics with an Episcopalian family in the Midwest won them a place in the Meryl Streep Writers Lab administered by NYWIFT and IRIS, was a semi-finalist for the 2011 Pride Plays and Films Award and a finalist for the 2011 Roy W. Dean Award. Their second screenplay, Run from Fire, a feminist thriller, was a finalist for the 2016 Half the World Literati Award. Assigned Female at Birth, a queer web series, has won Best Web Series/Best New Media in eight film festivals. My Mother and the Nun, the story of a 70’s housewife who falls in love with her lesbian daughter’s principal, won the 2002 Stanley and Eleanor Lipkin Prize in Playwriting and was a finalist in the 2005 Massachusetts Council of the Arts Awards. Lyralen has also been nominated for the 1997 Pushcart Prize in fiction and won the 1998 Boston Amazon Poetry Super Slam Finals, the 2017 Moth Story Slam, the 2017 Boston Story Slam and the 2018 San Francisco Best in Fringe for their show My Preferred Pronoun Is WE. Their poetry, fiction and creative non-fiction have been published in literary journals nationwide. Lyralen specializes in directing devised theater and film, based on interviews with members of minority communities. They are proud to tell these stories.