Lily Hevesh

Lily Hevesh is an American domino artist and YouTuber working under the channel name Hevesh5.

Hevesh is the subject of the documentary film Lily Topples the World directed by Jeremy Workman and executive produced by actress Kelly Marie Tran. She has two siblings, Alissa and Matt, and grew up in Sandown, New Hampshire, as the only Asian person in town.

Hevesh attended Timberlane Regional High School. She attended Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, where she was a "Design, Innovation, and Society" major, but left after less than a year to pursue domino art full-time. She currently lives in Massachusetts, west of Boston. She hopes that her work would encourage more children to get involved in STEAM fields.

Career

YouTube In 2009, at the age of 10,

Hevesh worked with Endemol Shine North America to create a competitive reality show around building domino effect chains, tentatively called Domino Effect, in the same vein as Endemol's Lego Masters, announced in August 2020. In March 2021, RTL 4 Netherlands and France's M6 ordered local versions of the domino competition format created by Hevesh and Endemol.

Domino set In 2020, Hevesh and Spin Master launched H5 Domino Creations at the North American International Toy Fair in New York City. The set comes with 100 improved dominoes which Hevesh described as being "specially made for toppling".

Domino art She was approached by Campbell Soup Company in 2013 to create a commercial for them.

She has since created ads for companies—such as Prudential Financial, Ford Motors, and Honda — and films such as The Hunger Games: Catching Fire and Despicable Me. In 2017, Hevesh was hired by Marvel to create a Spider-Man-inspired domino art piece.

Lily Topples the World In 2021, a documentary about Hevesh titled Lily Topples the World premiered at the virtual South by Southwest, where it won the Grand Jury Prize in the Documentary Feature Film Competition. Soon after, the film won the Audience Award for Best Documentary at the 2021 San Francisco International Film Festival. It was directed by Jeremy Workman. Lily Topples The World was produced by Robert Lyons and executive produced by actress Kelly Marie Tran in her first producing role.

Awards Hevesh was listed on the 2020 Forbes 30 Under 30 list in the category "Art & Style". She was one of the United States Junior Chamber's Ten Outstanding Young Americans in 2022.