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Lila is directing and developing Extra Dry with Michelle Renee Johnson. The play will premiere in New York and Edinburgh in 2026.

She is also developing an original play, Flatbush Lysistrata, about a sex strike among Hasidic women set in an axe-throwing parlor.

Lila Rachel Becker (she/her) is a DC-raised, East Coast-based director. She stages joyful, rigorous productions of formally inventive new work and irreverent reimaginings of classics that challenge us to think and act with radical hope.