Lyralen Kaye

Lyralen Kaye

Another Country Productions
Actor, Screenwriter and Director

Salem, Massachusetts

Member Since:
August 2011
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About Lyralen

I'm a writer, director, actor, SAG-AFTRA, AEA, MFA Sarah Lawrence College (27 Dresses, The Last Poker Game, see resume at ) and screenwriter (Winner, NE Film Star Award 2021, Winner, 2015 Meryl Streep Writers Lab, Finalist, 2016 Half the World Literati). I write to represent people whose voices aren't usually heard. All social justice all the time.

Unique traits: Professional yoga instructor. Good at accents. Speaks Spanish.

Certifications

Loglines

  • Run from Fire

    Run from Fire Thriller An advocate for rape victims is put to the ultimate test—when a local fireman's wife escapes his reign of terror, he confronts her advocate with a violence that turns the counselor into the client.

Credits

  • The Last Poker Game

    The Last Poker Game (2017)
    Film (Comedy and Drama) Actor Dr. Abe Mandelbaum has just moved into a new manor with his ailing wife. After forming an unlikely friendship with a womanizing gambler, their relationship is tested when they each try to convince a mysterious nurse that they are her long-lost father.

  • Withdrawl

    Withdrawl (2013)
    Film (Drama, Horror, Mystery and Short) Actor Withdrawl is a surreal drama that tells the story of David, a young gay man who locks himself in his apartment after his boyfriend breaks up with him due to his long-term addiction to prescription pain killers. As David suffers through his isolation with his stuffed squirrel Alvober as his only companion, he falls deep into his mind and unlocks the secret to his addiction. Written by Anonymous

  • 21

    21 (2008)
    Film (Crime, Drama and Thriller) Actor Ben Campbell is a young, highly intelligent, student at M.I.T. in Boston who strives to succeed. Wanting a scholarship to transfer to Harvard School of Medicine with the desire to become a doctor, Ben learns that he cannot afford the $300,000 for the four to five years of schooling as he comes from a poor, working-class background. But one evening, Ben is introduced by his unorthodox math professor Micky Rosa into a small but secretive club of five. Students Jill, Choi, Kianna, and Fisher, who are being trained by Professor Rosa of the skill of card counting at blackjack. Intrigued by the desire to make money, Ben joins his new friends on secret weekend trips to Las Vegas where, using their skills of code talk and hand signals, they have Ben make hundreds of thousands of dollars in winning blackjack at casino after casino. Ben only wants to make enough money for the tuition to Harvard and then back out. But as fellow card counter, Jill Taylor, predicts, Ben becomes corrupted by greed ... Written by matt-282

  • 27 Dresses

    27 Dresses (2007)
    Film by Fox Features, Anne Fletcher Actor

  • Mama's Boy

    Mama's Boy (2007)
    Film (Comedy and Drama) Actor Eccentric Jeffrey Mannus is 29 years old and still lives at home with his mom, Jan. He sees no reason to alter this arrangement, but his perfect world is upended when Jan meets Mert, a motivational speaker. Mert successfully woos Jan and moves in on Jeffrey's territory, something Jeffrey will not tolerate. Jeffrey enlists the aid of an unlikely ally, an aspiring singer-songwriter, Nora, with an anti-establishment penchant and a soft spot for him. As the war between Mert and Jeffrey escalates, something unprecedented happens -- slowly, to both his own surprise and horror, Jeffrey discovers his inner adult. Written by WIP

  • Escape from the Night

    Escape from the Night (2003)
    Film (Mystery, Thriller and Short) Actor "The terrible nightmares that terrified Kyle as a child have suddenly resurfaced. His therapist, Dr. Mindell, tries to help him piece together the significance of his dreams. But then Kyle starts to notice clues in his nightmares. If only he can decipher them..." Written by Robert Smithline

Awards

  • NE Film Star Award, Assigned Female at Birth
    (2021)

  • Finalist, Half the World Literati in Screenwriting, Run from Fire
    (2016)

  • Winner, Meryl Streep-funded Writers Lab, Saint John the Divine in Iowa
    (2015)

  • Finalist, Roy W. Dean Awards, Saint John the Divine in Iowa
    (2011)

  • Semi-finalist, Pride Plays and Films, Saint John the Divine in Iowa
    (2011)

  • Finalist in Playwriting, Massachusetts Council of the Arts, Ladders to God
    (2005)

  • Winner, Stanley and Eleanor Lipkin Prize in Playwriting, Ladders to God
    (2002)

  • Winner, Amazon Poetry Slam, The Training
    (1998)

  • Winner, Amazon Poetry Super Slam Finals, For Whom Did You Write the World
    (1998)

  • Pushcart Prize Nomination in Fiction, The Watcher`
    (1997)

Education

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