Lally Katz is a graduate of the University of Melbourne. She studied playwriting at London's Royal Court Theatre. Her plays include Frankenstein, The Black Swan of Trespass, The Eisteddfod, Criminology (with Tom Wright) and Goodbye New York, Goodbye Heart. Her 2009 play, Goodbye Vaudeville Charlie Mudd, received the State Library of Victoria's Louis Esson Prize for Drama. Awards include several Green Room and Melbourne Fringe Awards, and a New York International Fringe Festival Producer's Choice Award.

"a deeply accomplished work: darkly beautiful theatre that resonates in the intimate chambers of the mind". -- The Australian

"The parallel universe of Lally Katz’s imagination is an estranging, breathlessly anxious, uneasily hilarious place." -- The Australian