Lily founded Scandobean Productions LLC in 2010 because of her belief that the entertainment sphere is the best medium to inspire thinking, educate, and forge differences by changing the way people understand each other. Over the years, her projects have expanded from theater to film and television.
Theater
Lily won her first Tony Award for Best New Musical as a Co-Producer of Hadestown in 2019. Lily has also been represented on Broadway by Chinglish (2011), Jesus Christ Superstar (2013), Love Letters (2014), Hand To God (2015), Network (2018), and Betrayal (2019). She has also proudly supported the Broadway productions of To Kill A Mockingbird, Ain’t Too Proud: The Life and Times of The Temptations, The Boys in the Band, The Waverly Gallery, The Band's Visit, Beautiful, Sweat, Indecent, Three Tall Women, Iceman Cometh, The Addams Family, An American In Paris, If/Then, The Last Ship, Ann, 1984, The Mountaintop, and others. Her Off-Broadway credits include The Other Josh Cohen, Here Lies Love, Miss Abigail's Guide to Dating and Mating, and her first show The Rotten Plaintains.
Documentary Films and Series
Along-side the creative team at Edgeline Films, Lily’s has achieved some success in the documentary world as well. The Fight (a feature documentary about the ACLU and a few of its lawyers’ work distributed by Magnolia Pictures) won the Special Jury Award for Social Impact Filmmaking at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival. Lily was an Executive Producer of Weiner, which received the U.S. Documentary Grand Jury Prize at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival and was distributed by IFC. In September 2019, the critically-acclaimed docu-series Couples Therapy premiered on Showtime. Season II is currently in production.
Upcoming Projects
1. Sisters In Law, a new play based on the book about Sandra Day O’Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsberg’s friendship
2. Empress Lee (working title), a scripted drama TV series about a Chinese American family
3. Positivity (working title), a scripted film about 5 girlfriends in a post-COVID world
4. Couples Therapy Season 2
Public Service
Lily is passionate about giving back to her community. On June 20, 2018, the New York State Senate confirmed Lily as Commissioner to the New York State Liquor Authority. Lily is a board member of the Yale Law School Fund and a member of the advisory board to the Yale School of Drama. She is Treasurer to the Board of Directors of The Lillys (advancing women in theater), a board member to the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center (launchpad of American theater), and a board member of The Open Stage Project (introducing women to backstage theatrical arts).
She is a graduate of Yale College and Yale Law School. She was born in Hong Kong and speaks fluent Cantonese. Lily is a member of the Producers Guild of America and the Television Academy.
