about.
Stories for the existentially exhausted.
Byron Lane is an author, playwright, and “cult leader.” His writing explores connection, mortality, and absurdity. He's a cancer survivor, two-time Emmy Award winner, and former assistant to Carrie Fisher. His work spans novels, theatre, film, and Byrontology—a podcast, Substack, and YouTube channel disguised as a cult.
byrontology.
Take your broken heart and go make art.
Byrontology is a podcast, Substack, and YouTube channel—but calling it a cult is way more fun. We gather around one ritual: Take your broken heart and go make art. The broken heart is sometimes rejection, jealousy, or despair. The art is the response that brings us back home—a book, a movie, a walk, a conversation, a meaningful moment at Taco Bell. We’re a little irreverent, subversive, occasionally satirical. But the help is real.
books.
“Wildly funny and irreverent,” says The New York Times Book Review.
Novels about love, longing, and family. Big feelings, dark humor, and the occasional mental illness.
theatre.
Mary Poppins meets Tilda Swinton, and a chatty roach.
Plays like Goodnight, Roach and Tilda Swinton Answers an Ad on Craigslist, where grief, absurdity, and big feelings all share the stage.
filmography.
Academy Award winners, testicles, and gay stuff.
Screen work examining celebrity, illness, and intimacy with humor and heart.
contact.
Let’s make something strange and honest.
For social media links and professional inquiry contacts.