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Lila is directing and developing Extra Dry with Michelle Renee Johnson. The play will premiere in New York and Edinburgh in 2026.

Her original play, Flatbush Lysistrata, about a sex strike among Hasidic women set in an axe-throwing parlor, is a semi-finalist for the O’Neill Playwrights Conference and a finalist for the Jewish Plays Project.

Lila Rachel Becker (she/her) is a DC-raised, East Coast-based director and writer. She stages joyful, rigorous productions of formally inventive new work and irreverent reimaginings of classics that challenge us to think and act with radical hope.