about.
Stories for the existentially exhausted.
Byron Lane is an author, playwright, and “cult leader.” His writing explores connection, mortality, and absurdity of life. His work spans novels, theatre, film, and a newsletter disguised as a cult.
byrontology.
Take your broken heart and go make art.
Byrontology is a newsletter disguised as a cult, offering a practical roadmap to creatives, overthinkers, and the existentially exhausted to turn despair, rejection, and boredom into meaning, clarity, and creative momentum.
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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