Photo: Michael Lionstar.
Biography
Eric Lane is an award-winning playwright, screenwriter and book editor. Plays include Heart of the City and Dancing on Checkers’ Grave, which starred Jennifer Aniston. Other plays: A Thousand Faces: The Lon Chaney Musical (book writer, Encore), Filming O’Keeffe and Times of War (Adirondack Theatre Festival), Ride (WHAT), Critters (New Circle), Ibis and Riverbed (59E59). Eric wrote and produced the short films First Breath (starring Oscar-winner Melissa Leo) and Cater-Waiter, which he also directed. For ABC-TV’s Ryan’s Hope, he received a Writer’s Guild Award. With Nina Shengold, he edited 14 contemporary play anthologies for Viking Penguin and Vintage Books, earning a Lambda Literary Award nomination. Honors include the La MaMa Playwright Award, the William Inge Theatre Festival, Valdez Theatre Conference, and an ATF Founders’ Fund commission. Residencies include Yaddo and St. James Cavalier in Malta. His works are published by Playscripts, Dramatists Play Service, Dramatic Publishing, Applause, and in several Smith-Kraus “best” anthologies. Eric is a member artist at Ensemble Studio Theatre and is an honors graduate of Brown University. Website: www.ericlanewrites.com
