Eric Lane

Eric Lane has edited 12 contemporary play anthologies for Viking Penguin and Vintage Books with his longtime collaborator, Nina Shengold, earning them a Lambda Literary Award nomination. Eric's plays have been performed in the United States, Canada, Europe, Israel, and China, and include Ride , Floating , Heart of the City , Times of War , and Dancing on Checkers' Grave. Eric wrote and produced the short films First Breath and Cater-Waiter , which he also directed. For TV's Ryan's Hope , he...See more

Eric Lane has edited 12 contemporary play anthologies for Viking Penguin and Vintage Books with his longtime collaborator, Nina Shengold, earning them a Lambda Literary Award nomination. Eric's plays have been performed in the United States, Canada, Europe, Israel, and China, and include Ride , Floating , Heart of the City , Times of War , and Dancing on Checkers' Grave. Eric wrote and produced the short films First Breath and Cater-Waiter , which he also directed. For TV's Ryan's Hope , he received a Writers Guild Award. His honors include the La MaMa Playwright Award, the Berilla Kerr Award, plus fellowships at Yaddo and St. James Cavalier in Malta. Eric is an honors graduate of Brown University, and is the artistic director of Orange Thoughts Productions, a not-for-profit theater and film company in New York City. See less