ERIC LANE is an award-winning playwright, screenwriter and book editor. Plays include “A Thousand Faces: The Lon Chaney Musical” (book writer, Encore Musical Theatre), “Filming O’Keeffe” (Adirondack Theatre Festival commission), “Ride” (WHAT), “Ibis” and “Riverbed” (59E59), “Heart of the City” (Theatre at 30th St.), “Times of War” (ATF), and “Dancing on Checkers’ Grave,” which starred Jennifer Aniston. Eric wrote and produced the short films “First Breath” and “Cater-Waiter,” which he also directed. Both films played in over 40 cities worldwide, with screenings at the British Film Institute and the DGA. For ABC-TV’s “Ryan’s Hope,” he received a Writer’s Guild Award.
Eric’s works are published by Dramatists Play Service, Playscripts, Dramatic Publishing, and Smith & Kraus. With Nina Shengold, he has 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 Berrilla Kerr Award, plus fellowships at Yaddo, Millay, VCCA and St. James Cavalier in Malta. Eric is a member artist at Ensemble Studio Theatre and is artistic director of Orange Thoughts Productions, a not-for-profit theater and film company in NYC. He is an honors graduate of Brown University.