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54 Below

A Nonprofit Cabaret Venue


LILY ALI-OSHATZ (Peter Pan), she/her, is a Brooklyn-based artist with a focus on activism and creating/performing new musicals and plays. She is an active member of Ring of Keys, a musical theatre advocacy community for queer women, transgender, and gender nonconforming artists. Her first musical, THE EXTRAORDINARY FALL OF THE FOUR-LEGGED WOMAN, played Off-Broadway at SoHo Playhouse in the 2016 Fringe Encore Series. She collaborates often with Mark Galinovsky and their work has been presented at Joe’s Pub, Club Cumming, Don’t Tell Mama, the Zero to Fierce Festival in Arcata, California, Musical Theatre Factory, the #HealMeToo Festival and The Tank. Their commission through Piper Theatre, PROSPECT HILL, played outdoors in July 2021 in Park Slope, Brooklyn with direction by Jessi Hill. DEAR MR. C, her collaboration with Tidtaya Sinutoke and Naomi Matlow, received a workshop production at the nationally recognized Polyphone Festival in Philadelphia in spring 2022 as well as a place at Rhinebeck Writers Retreat summer 2022. Lily is a founding producer of the 2020 philanthropic national campaign, THE LESBIAN BAR PROJECT, that raised over $117K to protect the remaining Lesbian bars in the United States. She also produced the free, online concert A PLACE FOR US with Preston Max Allen in 2021. This production was filmed in partnership with The Brick Theatre and featured new musical theatre music from a lineup of all trans and nonbinary writers. Lily recently completed the Off Broadway run of THE CIVILITY OF ALBERT CASHIER, a history making experience that featured an all TGNC cast and crew. A shortened audio version of her solo Me Too musical, SHE SAID, had a presence at the 2021 Edinburgh Fringe with direction by Madeline Wall. This November Lily will tour Italy performing in Crystal Skillman’s beautiful solo play, OPEN. BFA NYU Tisch.