Lily Houghton (she/her) is a young playwright born and raised in Manhattan. She wrote her first play at age seventeen before completing her B.A. in theater and clinical psychology at Bennington College. Her plays have been produced/developed at MCC Theater Company, Atlantic Theater Company, The Flea Theater, EST/Youngblood, NYU, Seattle Repertory Theater, Normal Ave, 20% Theater Company Chicago, Yale University’s Writers’ Conference, Bennington College, West of 10th, University of Michigan Theater Conservatory, Contemporary American Theater Festival/Shepherd University, The 52nd Street Project, 999 Productions and the Jermyn Street Theatre in London. Shorts include NEXT (The Flea), Coconut Oil (The Flea), This Is Growth (Asking for Trouble, EST/Youngblood), The Interesting Girl (EST/Youngblood), Rosie (Play x Play) and someone/something/someone/something (EST/ Youngblood) which won a Sloan Foundation Grant. Lily's play, Dear, received a PlayLab with MCC Theater in the fall of 2017. She is a two-time O’Neill Semi-Finalist. This Spring she received the Elizabeth George Grant through a new play commission from Seattle Repertory Theater. This Fall Lily was selected as the 2019 Launch Commission recipient from the Atlantic Theater Company. She is a proud member of the Obie winning Youngblood at EST and the Flea Theater writers group. This year Lily had two world premieres: first, her one act Rosie as part of EST’s Marathon plays and directed by Danya Taymor, then Of the woman came the beginning of sin, and through her we all die workshop with an entirely female identifying and non-binary creative team at Normal Ave.