Lila Blue is queer, non-binary composer, playwright, performer, and muscian from New York City.
For fourteen years, Blue toured internationally as a folk singer-songwriter, recording 4 LP's, 2 EP's, and original music for television and film, most notably MTV & Lifetime. In 2016, they were the youngest musician to ever be inducted into the Grammy’s San Francisco chapter, and in 2024 Blue won the Kerrville New Folk Contest, a prestigious award previously bestowed to two of their songwriting heroes, Adrianne Lenker and Anaïs Mitchell.
Lila found their way to music through theater. They were a company member of Bread & Puppet Theater from ages 2-10, and have been performer and collaborator at the Lake Lucille Chekhov Project for over 15 years. Blue co-wrote with Phillip Roebuck a 52-song score for Lake Lucille’s The Cherry Orchard that was presented at the Under the Radar Festival in 2019 and 2020. For six years they performed as the co-lead in The Kilbane's Drama Desk/Lucille Lortel-nominated musical Weightless.
Blue is currently developing SEE/UNSEE, a song cycle séance based on the life and work of queer painter & mystic Hilma af Klint with support from HERE Arts Center and the New York State Council on the Arts.