My Master Builder

Lila Raicek is a New York based playwright. Her hit play My Master Builder, starring Ewan McGregor and Elizabeth Debicki, directed by Sir Michael Grandage, debuted in London’s West End in Spring 2025, with a sold-out run. Her debut novel The Plunge will be published by HarperCollins in April 2026. In theatre: Fire Season, inspired by Measure for Measure, is in pre-production. The recent workshop starred Amanda Seyfried, Billy Crudup, Victor Garber, and Patina Miller. She is currently working on Tulla, about Edvard Munch, as a commission for Broadway studio Seaview Productions. In TV: It was just announced that Night Float, adapted from her play Vertebrae, will star Nina Dobrev, produced by Made Up Stories and Fifth Season. She is also writing original pilot 9 Parties for Fifth Season and Made Up Stories. Recently, she adapted Blinded, based on a Swedish thriller, for Keanu Reeves and Miramax; Three Wishes, by Big Little Lies author Liane Moriarty, for NETFLIX; the NYTimes bestseller The Couple Next Door for Paramount TV and Sugar23; and 99 Days for Warner Bros. Lila wrote on Darren Star's Younger, and served as executive story editor of Gossip Girl on HBO Max. Her other plays include: Vertebrae (New York Theatre Workshop; Araca Group’s Graduate Playwriting Award), Love Lab (inaugural Clifford Odets Ensemble Play commission), Night Float (Playwrights Horizon commission), Monkey Bowl (Manhattan Theatre Club workshop), and Blood Moon, among others. Lila holds an MFA in Playwriting from Columbia University, and is a summa cum laude, phi beta kappa, and Centennial Scholar graduate of Barnard College, Columbia University, where she studied creative writing and a lot of poetry.

Adam is a father, actor, director, narrator, dialect coach and teacher. Born in New York, raised in Winnipeg, he trained at The Bristol Old Vic theatre school, then spent 20 years acting around Europe including London’s West End, BBC Radio and TV, Royal Opera House and National Theatre. An instructor at Vancouver Film School, Adam is dialect coach on film sets. At Jericho Arts Centre he has acted in Jerusalem, Cyrano, Arturo Ui and directed The Train Driver, Nell Gwynn, Facts, Figaro, London Assurance, The Way of the World, Death of Disney, Wittenberg, etc., for United Players.