Lally Katz is a screenwriter, playwright and memoirist, widely regarded as one of Australia’s most in-demand writers. Her work has been described as “if The Simpsons was written by Tennessee Williams” (Sydney Morning Herald). She has written more than 50 plays that have premiered on the main stages of leading theatres in Australia and internationally.

Her one-woman show Stories I Want to Tell You in Person toured Australia, Mexico and India and was adapted into a two-part program for the ABC.

Lally has developed television projects with FX (Let’s Pretend This Never Happened), Showtime (I Love Lally), and ABC Signature (the Untitled Lally Katz Project), and sold her pilot Atlantis to Australia’s Goalpost Pictures. She was in the writers’ room for season three of Hulu’s The Great. In 2024 she co-wrote with Josh Thomas his touring stand-up show Let’s Tidy Up and the accompanying book.

In 2026, six episodes written by Lally will air on Australian television: one episode of Sunny Nights, a new comedy-crime series starring Will Forte and D’Arcy Carden (Stan), and five episodes of Shaun Tan’s Tales From Outer Suburbia, an animated series for the ABC. One of her episodes was selected to compete at the 2025 Annecy Festival in France, the world’s leading animation festival.

Her first memoir, My Cursed Vagina, was published by Allen & Unwin in February 2026.