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 * Billy McEntee
    * home
    * about
    * arts journalism
    * scripts and screenplays
    * podcast
    * awards and press
    * contact

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 * home
 * about
 * arts journalism
 * scripts and screenplays
 * podcast
 * awards and press
 * contact

Writer, Editor, Queer Storyteller
About Me
Say Hi
About
Billy McEntee is a Brooklyn-based writer.

As an arts journalist and critic, he’s written for The Washington Post, Vanity
Fair, Travel + Leisure, American Theatre, them, and Observer, amongst others.
He’s also the Theater Editor at The Brooklyn Rail.

As an artist, he wrote the play Cory and Smin’s Love Conquers the Earth
(featured in Time Out New York and recipient of the Queens Arts Council grant)
and the short film Lindsay Lindsey Lyndsey (honors from Santa Barbara
International Screenplay Awards, LGBTQ Unbordered International Film Festival,
and others).

Billy has taught with The School of The New York Times, co-hosts the food and
cultural podcast “Lasagna Time with Billy and Kyle,” and was a Fellow at the
2018 National Critics Institute at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center. Billy
graduated from Boston College and loves all things Amy Adams, Kazuo Ishiguro,
and New Jersey.


Arts Journalism
By Article
By Outlet
Theater
With Two Pulitzers to Her Name, Lynn Nottage Knows She’s Here for the Longer
Journey
Vanity Fair
David Byrne Shows Us His — and Invites Us to Build Our Own — ’American Utopia’
Observer
Will Arbery: In Pursuit of the Urgently Inexplicable
The Brooklyn Rail
Film
‘Junebug’ is still defined by its North-South divisions and — now more than ever
— the compassion that transcends them
The Washington Post
The Writer Behind Both of Glenn Close’s “Breathtaking” Performances This Year
Vanity Fair
Seen On Screen: Where Are Hollywood’s Love Letters to Queer Kids?
them
TV
How Jeff Hiller Smashed Gay TV Tropes on HBO’s Somebody Somewhere
them
Remembering Three TV Actors Who Queered Masculinity
them
5 Questions ‘Big Little Lies’ Season 2 Is Begging You to Ask
Observer
Food and Travel
Colorado's Ghost Towns Are Taking Over Instagram Thanks to Its Booming Wine
Scene, Chic Bars, and Charming Hotels
Travel and Leisure
At Philomena’s, Cozy Vibes, Crushable Drinks, and Infused Ice
Greenpointers
Meet Medellín: South America's Undersung Queer Mecca
EDGE
Queer Culture
40 Years Later: Stigma and Progress Collide Since the Onset of the AIDS Crisis
EDGE
These Iconic TV Couples Are Gay in My Mind
them
Is the Fragrance Industry Finally Breaking the Gender Binary?
EDGE
Books
Harry Potter and the Relentless Queerbaiting: Why Won’t the Magical Closet Be
Unlocked?
NewNowNext
A Borough’s History Comes Out of the Closet in “When Brooklyn Was Queer”
NewNowNext
Meet Queer Working Class Hero, Booker Award-Winning Novelist Douglas Stuart
EDGE
Faith
A Place for All at St. Lydia’s: Brooklyn’s Progressive Church Gem
Brooklyn Magazine
"You Are Very Welcome Here": The Queer Internet, and My Church
them
Music and Podcasts
All Roads (And Genres) Lead To TIGUE
The Brooklyn Rail
Queers Profit Off of Straights’ Sperm in ‘Hot White Heist’
Observer

Scripts and Screenplays
 * Cory and Smin’s Love Conquers the Earth
 * Cory and Smin’s Love Conquers the Earth
   Written by Billy McEntee
   Directed by Charles Quittner
   
   Productions
   Boscoe Barles Backyard Center for the Performing Arts (2020)
   Kingsland Flowers (2021)
   Smiling Hogshead Ranch (2021)*
   
   *recipient of a grant from the Queens Arts Council
   
   Press
   A preview in Time Out New York
   “An incredible queer masterpiece” —Sidewalkkilla
   “Lovely, ephemeral, intimate” —Token Theatre Friends
   
   Description
   A few years from now, when cities have banned gas-fueled cars and drag queens
   host gardening clubs, two enamored teens on opposite sides of the country
   struggle to meet in the middle: Cory wants a relationship, Smin wants a
   revolution. Each is difficult to attain when there are college essays and
   manifestos to write, mom's shopping to do, and maybe a planet to save.
   Anthemic and bawdy, Cory and Smin's Love Conquers the Earth is a queer
   "eco-medy" giving Zoomers, Boomers, and everyone in between a future to fear
   — or believe in.
   
   Cast
   Three actors (two teenagers, one in their 30s+ — race and gender flexible)
 * Lindsay Lindsey Lyndsey
 * Lindsay Lindsey Lyndsey
   Written and produced by Billy McEntee
   Directed by Claire Mathiot
   Featuring Cam Cronin, Daphne Overbeck, and Dan Kuan Peeples
   
   Description
   Three childhood friends reunite and are unmoored — and disarmed — by each
   other's developed sense of identity. "Lindsay Lindsey Lyndsey" is a new short
   film about queer, triangular friendship and how who we are is both
   individually and communally informed. The film premieres in 2022.
   
   Awards
   Best Short Screenplay — LGBTQ Unbordered International Film Festival
   Best Short Screenplay — Paris Play Film Festival
   Honorable Mention — Santa Barbara International Film Festival

Podcast
Lasagna Time with Billy and Kyle

In this new podcast, cultural critics Billy McEntee and Kyle Turner dissect the
role of food and drink in film, TV, theater, books, and more. Guests have
included Pulitzer Prize finalists Soraya Nadia McDonald, Michael Breslin,
Patrick Foley, and Will Arbery; The New Yorker’s Rachel Syme; Vanity Fair chief
critic Richard Lawson; author Mark Harris; comedian Jay Jurden; actress Bayne
Gibby, and more. Listen now!
Awards and Press
 * Awards for Lindsay Lindsey Lyndsey
   Best Short Screenplay — LGBTQ Unbordered International Film Festival
   Best Short Screenplay — Paris Play Film Festival
   Honorable Mention — Santa Barbara International Film Festival
 * Grants
   Queens Arts Council grant for presenting an outdoor theatrical experience for
   Queens residents (August 2021, for the play Cory and Smin’s Love Conquers the
   Earth, presented at Smiling Hogshead Ranch, one of New York City’s largest
   community gardens)
   Colorado Tourism Office grant to investigate the role of COVID and Instagram
   on tourism in Colorado mountain towns (June 2021, article written for Travel
   + Leisure)
 * Press for Cory and Smin’s Love Conquers the Earth
   A preview article in Time Out New York
   A review in Token Theatre Friends
   A review in Transitions
   An illustration of the play by Bill Roundy for The Brooklyn Paper
   An announcement in BroadwayWorld

Contact
Billy is a freelance writer available for hire. He writes criticism, company
blogs and website copy, and queer scripts.

Get in touch at williamjude92 [at] gmail [dot] com.
All photos by Jake White.