LILA DUPREE
performer • producer • writer • director
SCREENPLAYS
Big Sur (feature, comedic drama)
Three women and a box of ashes take the roadtrip of a lifetime. Multi-generational road trip comedy.
**Selection and development at the 2025 Fall Stowe Story Labs' Feature Campus
Big Sur (short, comedic drama)
A darkly comedic drama short that explores the myriad ways grief transforms and haunts us, Big Sur follows Faye on the eve of her 40th anniversary, as she and her husband return to the beloved place they eloped to many years before.
**Jury Award for Best Narrative Short, Washington West Film Festival
**Best Family Short, Manhattan Film Festival
**World Premiere at LA Shorts International Film Festival (Oscar-Qualifying)
**Official Selection Catalina Film Festival
**Official Selection San Jose International Short Film Festival (Oscar-Qualifying)
**Official Selection Dam Short Film Festival
**Official Selection La Femme International Film Festival
**Official Selection Yountville International Short Film Festival
Kill Me Now (tv pilot, dark comedy)
Rocked by the news of her father’s suicide, dutiful daughter Tess Davenport is confronted with the reality that her mother wants her to lie about how her father died.
Meet Tess Davenport, mid-30s COO of a Fortune 500 company and a no-strings-attached sexsituationship with a hunky guy. Everything is going great. Except for the fact that her dad just died. In Hawaii. Vacation capital of the world. So, not all bad.
Shellshocked, Tess flies to Honolulu for the worst vacay of all time, reuniting with her dysfunctional family where she learns that it was not actually a heart attack that killed her dad but suicide. Even better, her mom wants everyone to lie about it. As Tess and her family navigate the messy, surreal and weirdly funny aftermath of her dad’s untimely tropical exit, Tess must take stock of her own life choices. Does she want to keep toeing the party line or is it time, finally, to strike out on her own? Based on a true story. Except for the successful COO part.
**Selection and development at the 2026 Fall Stowe Story Labs' Narrative Lab
**Second Rounder, Comedy Teleplay Pilot, 2025 Austin Film Festival Script Competition
**Selection and development at the Spring 2024 HerArts Film Lab in Paestum, Italy
**Quarter-Finalist, 2023 Moonshot Pilot Accelerator
**Honorable Mention, 2023 Big Apple Film Festival Screenplay Competition
STAGEPLAYS
6 1/2 Dollars: A WASP Girl's Quest for Ubuntu (one-act solo show)
(1 W) A coming-of-age comedic drama that engages issues of race, gender, class and identity. Recent college graduate and recovering WASP, Umlungu Girl, has just won a prestigious arts fellowship to create a new musical with a South African theatre company. Thrilled, and despite the warnings from her catastrophist Bostonian father, she heads to Durban, armed with good intentions, naiveté and some key intellectual literature. As the project progresses, however, she discovers that blind optimism is not quite the panacea she imagined and comes face-to-face with her own prejudices and shortcomings – all of which threaten to derail the entire project.
**Honorable Mention in the 2017 New Works of Merit Playwriting Competition
Unstageable (short, comedy)
(1 W, 2 M) It's the first day of the rest of Brad and Ethel's life together - that is if they survive the Zimbabwean bungee-jumping honeymoon Brad planned for them.
**Semi-Finalist in the Little Black Dress INK 2018 Female Playwrights ONSTAGE Festival (had three staged readings in Los Angeles & Prescott, Arizona)
Norway (short, drama)
(1 W, 1 M) A woman and her husband return to the small village in Norway where they eloped to many years before.
**Shortlisted for the 2018 Short & Sweet Festival in Sydney, Australia
Symphony in B (short, dark comedy)
(3 W, 1 M) Three women hunt for a good man.