Byron Lane is an author, playwright, and cult leader.
He’s a two-time regional Emmy Award winner from his time as a television news journalist, former assistant to actress and author Carrie Fisher, and testicular cancer survivor.
He created Byrontology, a satirical cult for creatives and the existentially exhausted built on Carrie Fisher’s advice to, “Take your broken heart and go make art.”
His latest novel, Big Gay Wedding, is a Golden Poppy Award finalist and named an Audible Best of the Year.
His debut novel, A Star Is Bored, is hailed as “wildly funny” by The New York Times Book Review.
Lane also wrote and co-stars in the play Tilda Swinton Answers an Ad on Craigslist, sold out in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, London, and Edinburgh Fringe, and was called “resplendent” by The Guardian.
He wrote and co-stars in Last Will & Testicle, an award-winning web series about surviving testicular cancer called “fearless” by Cosmopolitan magazine.
He wrote and co-stars in a feature film called Herpes Boy, starring Academy Award winner Octavia Spencer, which won Best Comedy at Comic Con and an Audience Award from Austin Film Festival.
He’s originally from New Orleans and lives in Palm Springs, California with his husband, The New York Times bestselling author Steven Rowley, and their rescue dogs, Raindrop, Shirley, and Belle.