Lydia Blaisdell

Lydia is a current fellow at the Michener Center for Writers. Her play, The Silent Woman, recently won the 2015 Kentucky Women Writers Conference Prize. Her immersive, retro-future piece, Apocalypse Radio had a workshop production in Austin in spring 2015. In March 2014, her one-act, Old Broads, was performed at the Off Shoot in Austin, TX. She is a proud member playwright of Youngblood at Ensemble Studio Theater (since 2010) and the Brooklyn-based writers’ collective, Kristiania. Her short plays have been performed in Aspen, Austin, Lake George, NYC, and Paris, France. Lydia currently resides in Austin, TX with her puppy, io.