Work
How to Defend Yourself
I wish girls fought more. Like beat the shit out of each other for fun. I wish that was like a socially acceptable thing to do. Fight club, you know? If it was me and you, I think I’d win.
In a DIY self-defense class, college students learn to use their bodies as weapons. They learn to fend off attackers. They learn “not to be a victim.” Self-defense becomes a channel for their rage, anxiety, confusion, trauma and desire—lots of desire.
New York Theatre Workshop - 2023
Victory Gardens Theatre - 2020
Humana Festival, Actors Theatre of Louisville - 2019
Wagner New Play Festival, UC San Diego - 2018
Born 1000 Times
What has grown, died and transformed in my community? How do we share wisdom and grief?
Drawn from conversations with some of Liliana’s dearest friends, Born 1000 Times is woven with the collaboration of visual artist Mojdeh Rezaeipour into a collage of questions and space that we can hold in our hands to mark and ask where we are.
A zine published by New York Theatre Workshop - 2022
The support group for sex addicts meets every Monday in the little seaside town of Pescadero, California. But where is Dr. Jurgensen, the therapist who’s supposed to lead the group? And is Dr. Jurgensen’s earnest intern who's left to lead the group in over her head? When Matt shows up, any illusion of a “safe space” shatters and the group must confront difficult truths and unexpected points of connection in a comedy about addiction, identity, and sex. (w)holeness asks the question: “am I too damaged to be loved?”
Wagner New Play Festival, UC San Diego - 2017
Doug Lemons goes missing. The rehab center is (still) under construction. Good Yelps. A VERY HAPPY marriage falls apart. Guitar for sale! Craigslist! Too good to be true! Isn’t true? Pam’s eye is twitching, is it God? A brutal trip to the pound… Doug would never treat his dog like that. Jill would like a friend? In this town no one trusts each other. Kidding! Try the directory.
Breaking the Binary Festival - 2022 (staged reading)