kaia lyons (they/she/Kaia) is a Black queer playwright and memoirist from Murfreesboro, Tennessee, now based in Brooklyn. Her play ON EITHER SIDE OF ALL THE LATE UNPLEASANTNESS will receive a workshop production from Possibilities Theatre Company in Chicago this autumn. They are a member of Clubbed Thumb's 2022 Early Career Writers' Group and an alum of Fresh Ground Pepper’s Playground Play Group (2021), HBMG Foundation’s National Winter Playwrights Retreat (2020), and the Sewanee Writers’ Conference (Tennessee Williams Scholar in Playwriting, 2019). Kaia's work has been developed with/presented by The Black Box Project NYC, The Starfruit Project, The Playground Experiment, Possibilities Theatre Company, and Strange Trace Opera Company. B.A.: Washington University in St. Louis.