Lila spent 10 of their most formative years in South East England, but you’ll only hear it in their accent if you listen closely. Some people guess Brooklyn - which, to those people’s credit, is very close to where Lila spent the other section of their childhood. New York, NY and Lewes, East Sussex are wildly different places, but Lila holds both of them in their heart. The marriage between romantic rolling hills and kinetic city streets seems unlikely, but Lila believes in holding multiple truths at once. They hope their art can be as expansive, wistful, and nostalgic as it feels to remember the places you carry with you.

Lila is LaGuardia High School graduate, and recently also graduated from Boston University with a BFA in Theatre Arts and a minor in History. At BU they sought out directing training, while also studying performance, viewpoints, Laban technique, and choreography. With 10+ years of intensive dance training under their belt, how could movement and physical expression not be Lila’s foundation?

As a director, Lila has assisted on productions including at Central Square Theater in MA and the Finborough Theatre in London. Their primary focus is on new work and at BU they collaborated with multiple amazing playwrights to take words off the page at various stages of development. For their thesis project, Lila delved into the world of devising by creating Grow Until…, a piece inspired by Antoine de Sainte-Exupéry’s The Little Prince. The process focused on using deep collaboration and sustainable creative practices to create a production with puppetry, original music, poetry, movement, and a cardboard airplane.

Lila’s work highlights beauty, ephemerality, and aims to be uncompromising, inviting, and encompassing at the same time. When they’re not doing theatre, you might find them enjoying a cup of black tea with lots of milk, walking in their peacoat, or listening to slam poetry.