Opinion Piece Published
​on STAT News, April 2025

Lillian's op-ed about the termination of the volunteer committee advising on newborn screening was published on STAT News. 

"The story of newborn screening in the U.S. began with my disorder, PKU. Now it’s... the largest and most successful disease prevention program in the U.S."

Lillian's new full-length play Primordial, ​premiered in NYC
​as a Core Production at ​The Tank, February 2024.

Primordial is written by Lillian Isabella, directed by The Tank's Artistic Director, Meghan Finn, co-directed/ choreographed by Leslie Galán Guyton, with original music performed live by solo violinist, singer-songwriter, composer Adrianna Mateo.  

Primordial, a new play from writer/actor Lillian Isabella, is a playful and provocative exploration of pregnancy and childbirth, Primordial distills 1100 pages of people's first-hand accounts of the most common yet rarely discussed event in the world. 

Photo credit: Mari Eimas-Dietrich

Press for Primordial

The Origin Way

My goal is to respect and maintain the meaning, intention, and order of the words spoken by each person I interviewed. But then I’ve woven them all together to tell a story. So there are some monologues, but they add to this larger dialog and build into a kind of cacophony of experience.

Lee Strasberg Theatre & Film Institute

Lillian is focused on connecting viewers of Primordial with organizations to “provide people with resources,” coordinating a series of talkbacks to complement the subject matter of her show. Lillian says, “I think theater is most impactful when it is combined with civic action, so I’m trying to provide pathways for that.” 

Front Row Center

The overall effect is one of compassion, joy and wisdom.  Here’s hoping the show will inspire us to seek more nuanced medical care, embrace cultural awareness and fight for rational legislation. 

Lillian wrote and starred in a sex-positive play ​​How We Love/F*ck
which premiered at Cherry Lane Theatre, Sept 2019 - Oct 2019! 

​Brought to you by Edge In Motion Productions, How We Love/F*ck is directed by Lorna Ventura ​and produced by Lindsay-Elizabeth Hand. 

How We Love/F*ck, a new play from powerhouse actor/writer Lillian Isabella, is a sex-positive theatre piece in response to the #MeToo movement where she looks to celebrate female sexuality, and how fun sex can be.

Press for How We Love/F*ck

Downtown Magazine

How We Love/F*ck explores sexuality with a simple honesty that draws you in, exploring a topic normally too taboo for discussion. That’s why we need it.

How We Love/F*ck is the story of how Lillian and her subjects discovered themselves. It’s an archive of their mistakes and realizations, shared out loud because people need to tell them, and hear them. 

Front Row Center

Lillian Isabella’s new play How We Love/F*ck is a declaration of joy to every part of our bodies and to our sexual and sensual appetites.

The play is about taking control of our bodies and desires. I left the theatre feeling really good about being a woman. 

Theater Mania

I decided I wanted to create How We Love/F*ck, a sex-positive documentary play about female sexuality, right as the #MeToo movement was exploding into our collective consciousness in late 2017. The public airing of this long-repressed trauma, while powerful, was also deeply disturbing and painful. I started to have a strong drive to explore female sexuality from a positive perspective. What does it look like when we're having fun? 'Cause sex is supposed to be fun… you know?

​NY Times Bestselling Book
Mentions Lillian's Play!

​NY Times writer John Leland wrote about Lillian's play That's How Angels Arranged in his ​insightful new NY Times bestselling book,
Happiness is a Choice You Make. ​

​
Lillian Published Her Play!
Lillian published her play about Jonas Mekas called
​That's How Angels Arranged.​​
Available on Amazon.

READ IT NOW

@TheRock says...
​Lillian has bad ass eyebrow game!!!!