Lane Michael Stanley (he/they) is a transgender writer and director making community-embedded work around queerness, healing, grief, recovery, restorative justice, and housing insecurity.
Lane’s award-winning short and feature films have played festivals including Austin, Outfest, Sidewalk, and American Dance Festival.
Lane’s plays have been presented at 20 theaters including The Barter Theatre, Island City Stage, and Kitchen Dog Theatre.
Lane’s writing has appeared/is forthcoming in Electric Literature, The Rumpus, Brevity, The Ana, #EnbyLife, and HowlRound. They are an alum of the Tin House, Kenyon, PEN America, and Lambda Literary writing workshops.
Lane has shared his community-embedded work in soup kitchens, shelters, addiction treatment centers, meditation gardens, and San Quentin State Prison. He was the NEA-funded 2023-2024 Resident Artist with Mission First Housing Group and coLAB Arts, and is the 2024-2025 Artist-in-Residence with Pathway Home of Los Angeles County.
Lane has won awards from the Film Fund, Baltimore City Paper, and Creative Baltimore Fund; received film grants from Art with Impact, Queen Anne’s County Cultural Arts Division, Maryland State Arts Council, and Austin Cultural Arts Division; been commissioned by Dance Camera West and Ground Floor Theatre; and holds an MFA in Directing from the University of Texas at Austin.