Lilly Thomassian
(playwright)

was born in Iran and studied at the University of Geneva, Switzerland. She is an award winning poet and playwright. In 1998, she was selected to participate in Wordsmiths, a workshop supported by the City of Los Angeles Cultural Department. In the same year, her one-act, How Do I Look, was a finalist in the Pathway Productions’ National Contest. The Interrogation, a play inspired by the Iranian revolution, was a finalist in the 2001 Ashland New Plays Festival. She is perhaps best known for her play, Let the Rocks Speak, which won the 2001 Catawba College Peterson Award. The same play was awarded an Honorable Mention in the Plays for the 21st Century by the Playwrights Theater in Texas and was the finalist in the David Mark Cohen National Playwrighting Competition. Lilly has been a long time member of FirstStage in Hollywood where she is currently part of the Artistic Committee. She is also a member of Playwrights Ink, a prestigious playwrighting group whose members’ plays have won many theater awards. She belongs to the Alliance of Los Angeles Playwrights.

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