Lily Haje is a New York-based theater scholar and artist currently pursuing a DFA at David Geffen School of Drama at Yale, where she is writing a dissertation about the use of puppetry in apocalyptic performance. She holds a BA in Theater and Study of Religion from Wesleyan University and an MFA in Dramaturgy & Dramatic Criticism from Yale.
While in graduate school Lily has been a teaching fellow for courses on theater history, performance studies, and collaborative performance making and served as a managing editor of Theater magazine alongside her work as a dramaturg for production at both the school and Yale Repertory Theater.
Recent creative projects as a lead artist include translating, adapting and performing Sponsus, a puppet performance based on the medieval music drama of the same name, built into an opening altarpiece (Object Movement Puppetry Festival); translating and directing Maurice Bouchor’s 1889 Symbolist puppet play Tobie; co-curating Love Songs, a multi-part digital project based on a poem by Mina Loy (Yale Cabaret), and prior to grad school, devising and directing Telegraph Bois, The Silo (Ars Nova), and Fire + Bone (Wesleyan University).