Lily Afghani is a Mexican-Iranian theatre and film director, puppeteer, cowboy, and lighting designer from Houston, Texas. Lily is a lover of practical jokes and this disposition seeps into their directorial process. Lily believes in facilitating a space of play, where the fun had in the room permeates into the quality of the product.
Lily finds themself attracted to work that breaks the structures of realism, often turning to highly poetic texts or story theatre to explore how human empathy is tested when in compromising positions. Whether the work be poetic text or puppetry, it questions why humans stray from their empathy.
However, Lily is of two minds and also has a strong passion for every and all things funny. With soft spots for farce and sketch comedy, Lily finds themselves directing just as many comedies as dramas.
They just directed UNCSA’s production of "Elliot, a Soldier’s Fugue" by Quiara Alegría Hudes, and will be directing "Beyond Therapy" by Christopher Durang and "Seledka" by Uliana Klimchuk as a part of UNCSA’s Keys to the Kingdom series.