NEW YORK

HOLD THESE TRUTHS by Jeanne Sakata	Epic Theatre Ensemble
ADA (opera) by Kim Sherman & Margaret Vandenburg	Center for Contemporary Opera (workshop)
JUST LIKE I PICTURED IT (ensemble devised)	Foundry Theatre/Queens Museum
100 PLANES by Lila Rose Kaplan (Studio Retreat)	Lark Play Development Center
NECTAR by Katie Baldwin Eng (workshop)	New Georges
ADA by Kim Sherman and Margaret (workshop)	Ensemble Studio Theatre First Light Fest
THE BEGINNING	52^nd Street Project – Playmaking 2011
BETHANY by Laura Marks (workshop)	Naked Angels
THE COURIER by Kate Fodor (Benefit)	Playwrights Horizons
CHARONVILLE by Nikolai Khalezin (workshop)	Belarus Free Theatre (@ the Lark)
DAWN’S LIGHT by Jeanne Sakata	NYTW/Dartmouth
HARRASSMENT OF IRIS MALLOY by Zak Berkman (workshop with David Strathairn and Maggie Siff)	Epic Theatre Ensemble & CSC
DAWN’S LIGHT by Jeanne Sakata (workshop)	Lark Theatre/Epic Theatre Ensemble
COULDN’T SAY by Christopher Wall**	Midtown International Theatre Festival
MORGAN STREET by Jeremy Richards, Anika Noni Rose and Eugene Gwodz	Studio Tisch (musical workshop)
NOWHERE IN AMERICA by Bathsheba Doran	Keen Company/Keen Teens – Kirk Theatre
LIKE LOVE by Lewis Flinn & Barry Kaplan	NYMF – The Barrow Group Theatre
365 Days/365 Plays by Suzan-Lori Parks	The Women’s Project
365 Days/365 Plays by Suzan-Lori Parks	Epic Theatre Center
NOCTURNAL COMMISSIONS	New Dramatists Fundraiser
SPLIT WIDE OPEN by Christina Gorman	Summer Play Festival (SPF)
ONE PLUM SQUARE-Radio-Opera by Amy Kohn	WNYC, “Spinning on Air”
ANATOMY 1968 by Karen Hartman	Summer Play Festival (SPF)
MERMAID by Ellen McLaughlin	Blue Heron Arts Center & 59 E 59th
CLOSET WIDE OPE’ by Shawn Sturnick	Creative Place Theater
JAZZ DESERT by Rebecca Hart (musical)	Culture Project
SCATTERHEAD by Elizabeth Anderson	Manhattan Theatre Source
WEEPING WOMAN by Amy Wheeler	Drama League (New Directors/New Works)
THE CASUAL SPIES	HERE
GHETTO PUNCH by Tony Sparks	Dixon Place
RESURRECTION by Anita Dashiell	A-1 Collaborators
WHY WE HAVE A BODY by Claire Chaffee	NYU Directing Lab
TRIFLES by Susan Glaspell	NYU Directing Lab

** winner of Best Director Award

REGIONAL

HOLD THESE TRUTHS by Jeanne Sakata	ACT (Seattle, WA)
DAIRYLAND by Heidi Armbruster (workshop)	Chautauqua Theatre Company
DEAR ELIZABETH by Sarah Ruhl	People’s Light & Theatre Company
HOLD THESE TRUTHS by Jeanne Sakata	Playmakers Repertory Theatre (NC)
CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF	Chautauqua Theatre
HOLD THESE TRUTHS by Jeanne Sakata	Honolulu Theatre for Youth
HOLD THESE TRUTHS by Jeanne Sakata	Chautauqua Theatre
PENELOPE by Ellen McLaughlin	Playmakers Repertory
MY OHIO (musical by Dana Yeaton and Andy Mitton)	Vermont Stage Company
EYEPIECE by Rinde Eckert	Iowa City, IA
MY OHIO (musical by Dana Yeaton and Andy Mitton)	Vermont Stage Company
INTERPRETING WILLIAM by James Still	Indiana Repertory Theatre
LOOKING FOR THE PONY by Andrea Lepcio	Synchronicity Theatre, Atlanta, GA
PENELOPE by Ellen McLaughlin	Gallatin/Princeton
PENELOPE by Ellen McLaughlin (commission/workshop)	The Getty Center, Los Angeles
AH, WILDERNESS! by Eugene O’Neill	Chautauqua Theatre
TIMBERLAND by Austin Bunn (Workshop)	New Harmony Project, Indiana
TWELFTH NIGHT by William Shakespeare	Seaside Shakespeare (Nantucket)
LIKENESS by David Caudle (workshop)	The New Harmony Project
LIKE A COW OR AN ELEPHANT by Kara Corthron	Voice & Vision Workshop
AS YOU LIKE IT by William Shakespeare	Milwaukee Shakespeare Company
STOP KISS by Diana Son	Riverside Theatre, Iowa

FILM/TELEVISION

SIX DEGREES (ABC)	Director Shadow (Tucker Gates)
CONTEMPLATING EMILY by Sarah Shively	Independent Short Film *(Chosen for LA Outfest 2006)

EDUCATIONAL

TONGUE OF A BIRD by Ellen McLaughlin	NYU MFA Acting Program
END OF THE ROAD by Robert Kerr	Juilliard School – 4^th year production
HOT L BALTIMORE by Lanford Wilson	NYU Graduate Acting Program
A MONTH IN THE COUNTRY by Brian Friel	Marymount Manhattan College
THE SEAGULL by Anton Chekhov	Yale School of Drama
BALM IN GILEAD by Lanford Wilson	Yale School of Drama
STOP KISS by Diana Son	NYU MFA Acting Program
AH, WILDERNESS! by Eugene O'Neill	NYU MFA Acting Program
TOP GIRLS	NYU MFA Acting Program
GUM by Karen Hartman	NYU MFA Acting Program
MACHINAL by Sophie Treadwell	Bard College
ALOHA SAY THE PRETTY GIRLS by Naomi Iizuka	University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana
AUGUST SNOW by Reynolds Price	The Actors Center
TOP GIRLS	The Actors Center
BUS STOP by William Inge	The Actors Center
THE CHALK GARDEN by Enid Bagnold	Stella Adler Studios (NYU)
THE STRONGER by Strindberg	Stella Adler Studios (NYU)
MY CALIFORNIA by Lisa D’Amour
CALM DOWN, MOTHER by Megan Terry
FEN by Caryl Churchill	Stella Adler Conservatory
BETWEEN DAYLIGHT and BOONVILLE by Matt Williams	Stella Adler Studios (NYU)
DREAM OF A COMMON LANGUAGE by Heather Macdonald	Stella Adler Studios (NYU)
AGNES OF GOD by John Pielmeier	Stella Adler Conservatory
THE MAIDS by Jean Genet	Stella Adler Conservatory
TOP GIRLS	Stella Adler Studios (NYU)
BIG LOVE by Charles Mee	Willamette University
THE GLORY OF LIVING by Rebecca Gilman	Cornell College
CLOUD NINE by Caryl Churchill	Long Island University, CW Post
DANCING AT LUGHNASA by Brian Friel	Long Island University, CW Post
JULIUS CAESAR by William Shakespeare	University of Evansville
AH, WILDERNESS! by Eugene O'Neill	University of Evansville, IN
HAPPY DONUT/MOTHER (PSRC HS students) (Produced by the Roundabout and MCC)	Public School Repertory Company, NYC
FLIGHT 243 (musical workshop)	NYU MFA Musical Theater Writing Program
LOVE ACCORDING to LUC (musical workshop)	NYU MFA Musical Theatre Writing Program
THE BIG ONE (musical workshop)	NYU MFA Musical Theatre Writing Program
FRAMING ELEANOR (musical wkshp)	NYU MFA Musical Theater Writing Program
1 PLUM SQUARE (musical wkshp)	NYU MFA Musical Theater Writing Program

RELATED EXPERIENCE

Lark Play Development Center	Programs upon Request	Director of Offsite Programs 2010-present
Readings and workshops	List upon Request	Director 1997-2013
CAMP ADDIS	Arts Based Summer Camp in Ethiopia	Director
CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW (Children of AHope Orphanage)	National Theatre of Ethiopia	Director /Producer
HANNAH and MARTIN (With David Strathairn)	Epic Theatre Center	Associate Producer
MOTEL BLUES II	Apartment 929 Theatre Co	Director/Producer of new play reading series
THE PERSIANS (with Len Cariou, Roberta Maxwell)	National Actors Theater Directed by Ethan McSweeny	Associate Director /Dramaturg (adap Ellen McLaughlin)
LYSISTRATA (adap. by Ellen McLaughlin)	Chautauqua Theatre	Director of Reading
LYSISTRATA (adap. Ellen McLaughlin) (with Kevin Bacon, Kyra Sedwick, David Strathairn, Mercedes Reuhl, F. Murray Abraham, Kathleen Chalfant)	Brooklyn Academy of Music	Co-Director of Reading with Ellen McLaughlin
THAW (Theatres Against War)	New York, NY	Co-Founder
HELEN (with Donna Murphy Denis O’Hare, Phylicia Rashad Marian Seldes)	The Public Theater Directed by Tony Kushner	Assistant to Playwright
TONGUE OF A BIRD by Ellen McLaughlin (with Cherry Jones, Sharon Lawrence	The Public Theater Directed by Lisa Petersen	Assistant to Playwright Ellen McLaughlin

MEMBER AFFILIATIONS

Current: Board Member of the League of Professional Theatre Women (LPTW) – VP of Membership

Past: Board Member of the Theatre World Awards (TWA)

HONORS AND AWARDS

EST/Sloan Grant – 2007/2008/2010 – for direction/dramaturgy of Opera (Ada)
with composer Kim Sherman & librettist Margaret Vandenburg

Women’s Project Director’s Lab Leader (2006-2008)

Women’s Project Director’s Lab (2004-2006)

Company Member of Obie Award Winning Epic Theatre Center

Drama League Fellow - New Directors/New Works

Fox Fellow Grant Recipient for Study (The Actors Center)

3 Year Full Tuition Scholarship (New York University Graduate Acting Program)

1 Year Full Tuition Scholarship (New York University Graduate Directing Lab)

American College Theatre Festival Citation of Excellence for The Glory of Living

American College Theatre Festival Citation of Excellence for Cloud 9

EDUCATIONAL

NEW YORK UNIVERSITY	Graduate Directing Lab
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY	Graduate Acting Program (MFA Acting)
UNIVERSITY OF EVANSVILLE	Undergraduate (BFA Theatre)

Lisa also has extensive experience in acting, coaching and teaching.
further information available upon request

Click HERE for a printable copy of resume.