Liliana Padilla
Affiliated Writer
La Jolla, CA
Biography

Liliana Padilla makes plays about sex, intersectional communities, and what it means to heal in a violent world. Their play, How to Defend Yourself won the 2019 Yale Drama Prize and is a 2018-19 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize Finalist. It was produced in the 2019 Humana Festival and will be at Victory Gardens in 2020. Liliana's work has been developed with OSF, Ojai Playwrights Conference, Victory Gardens, INTAR, Hedgebrook, Seattle Rep, the Playwrights' Center and San Diego REP. MFA, UC San Diego, BFA, NYU Tisch. Liliana is currently commissioned to make new plays with NNPN, Colt Coeur, and South Coast Rep. They are also a director, actor and community builder who looks at theatre as a laboratory for how we might be together. www.lilypadilla.com

Agent Information

Kevin Lin
CAA
kevin.lin@caa.com
212-277-9000

Successes

Affiliated Writer Lily Padilla's new monologue has been featured in The 24 Hour Plays: Viral Monologues.