Byron Lane

Byron Lane is an author, playwright, and screenwriter. His debut novel is called A Star Is Bored, about a celebrity assistant struggling to manage his eccentric and hilarious movie star boss, inspired in part by Lane's time as assistant to beloved actress Carrie Fisher. The novel has been featured in Entertainment Weekly, OK Magazine, and People Magazine which hails: "Funny, dishy, deeply affectionate... the force is with him." Lane also wrote and co-stars in the play Tilda Swinton Answers An Ad On Craigslist, a comedy hit having sold out runs in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, London, and Edinburgh Fringe. It's been critically praised by The Guardian, British Theatre, and Broadway World which says, "Hysterical... Lane has written a brilliant tour de force." Lane wrote and co-stars in Last Will and Testicle, an award-winning web series about his testicular cancer diagnosis which screened at festivals around the world, was called "fearless" by Cosmopolitan Magazine, and was named "New York Television Festival Pilots to Put on Your Radar" by NBC Out. He wrote and co-stars in a feature film called Herpes Boy, starring Academy Award winner Octavia Spencer, which won Best Comedy at Comic Con and an Audience Award at Austin Film Festival. And he wrote and produced a trailer for a series called Gay Divorce which was a finalist in Project Greenlight's See Yourself contest. Lane is a regional Emmy Award winner from his time as a TV News journalist. He's originally from New Orleans and lives in Los Angeles with his boyfriend, best-selling author Steven Rowley, and their rescue dog, Tilda.