Princess Grace Statue Award, 2024

Princess Grace Award
Theater Fellowship, 2013
Actors Theatre of Louisville
Robert and Gloria Hausman Theater Award

LILA NEUGEBAUER (Director) is a stage and screen director based in Brooklyn, New York. On Broadway, she has directed Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ Appropriate, Kenneth Lonergan’s The Waverly Gallery, and Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya, in a new adaptation by Heidi Schreck. Recent off-broadway credits include Itamar Moses’ The Ally (The Public Theater); Simon Stephens’ Morning Sun (Manhattan Theatre Club); Tracy Letts’ Mary Page Marlow (Second Stage); Annie Baker’s The Antipodes, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ Everybody, Edward Albee’s At Home at the Zoo: Homelife / The Zoo Story and works by Albee, Maria Irene Fornes, and Adrienne Kennedy (all at Signature Theatre); Sarah DeLappe’s The Wolves and Zoe Kazan’s After The Blast (Lincoln Center Theater). As co-Artistic Director of The Mad Ones, she co-authored and directed Mrs. Murray’s Menagerie (Ars Nova) and Miles for Mary (Playwrights Horizons), among other works. TV: “Maid” (Netflix), “The Last Thing He Told Me” (Apple TV+), “The Sex Lives of College Girls,” and “Room 104” (HBO Max). Her directorial feature debut Causeway, starring Jennifer Lawrence and Brian Tyree Henry (Oscar nomination) is available on AppleTV+. She is a recipient of the Obie and Drama Desk Awards and was nominated for a Tony for her direction of Appropriate.