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 home to stories you feel. It’s a podcast, Substack, and YouTube channel exploring the meaning of life with real stories trying to make sense of the absurd, awful, and everyday—like love, rejection, cancer, working for Carrie Fisher, visiting the gay orgy tent at Burning Man. Sometimes there’s hope. Sometimes humor. Sometimes just dog hair.
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.
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