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Skylar Lyralen Kaye

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Skylar Lyralen Kaye, fae/they, SAG-AFTRA, MFA in Theatre, Sarah Lawrence College, is a gender fluid fae screenwriter, playwright, novelist and poet. Their pandemic web series, Assigned Female at Birth, has won 14 awards including the NE Film Star award for Kaye. Their first screenplay, Saint John the Divine in Iowa, about the intersection of radical queer politics with an Episcopalian family in the Midwest won them a place in the Stowe Story Labs in 2022 as well as the Meryl Streep Writers Lab administered by NYWIFT and IRIS in 2015, and was a semi-finalist for the 2011 Pride Plays and Films Awards and a finalist for the 2011 Roy W. Dean Award. Their second screenplay, Run from Fire, a feminist thriller, was a finalist for the 2016 Half the World Literati Award. Their memoir, Bachelorx is scheduled to be released in 2026.

Eventive. “2025 San Francisco Transgender Film Festival.” Accessed June 25, 2026. https://sftff2025.eventive.org/films.
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