Lisa was a recent a guest artist at University of Wyoming at Laramie School of Theatre and Dance. Her play, American Bowl, will receive a reading there in November 2022. Lisa was a contributing playwright at the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, a resident playwright at Annex Theatre Hothouse Project (Seattle), a finalist for the Chicago Dramatists’ Residency Program, an alternate selection for the Inge Theatre Festival and a semi-finalist for The Ashland New Play festival. Her play, Gentle Cycle, is currently in development at the Blank Theatre in Los Angeles. She was a resident at Hedgebrook’s Vortext program on Whidbey Island. A graduate of Lafayette College, Lisa was a Thomas J. Watson Fellow at Sussex University in Brighton, England. In New York, she studied with Anthony Mannino, Jeffrey Jacobi, and Dale Worsley of Mabou Mines, as well as at Upright Citizens Brigade and The Cooper Union (photography). Lisa holds an MFA in fiction writing from Columbia College in Chicago where she taught undergraduate writing. Directing credits include Rhinoceros, True West, Stop Kiss, Hamlet, Careless Love, The Vagina Monologues, and Paradise Lost. Lisa’s plays have appeared at the Lyceum Theatre and Blue Box World (NY); Camanea Theater, Stockyards Theatres, and Speaking Ring Theater (Chicago); Theatre Limina (Minneapolis); That Uppity Theatre Company (St. Louis); and Icarus Falling (Lansing). She won Chicago’s first annual Writing and Drinking Festival, and her play was performed by The Neo-Futurists and Factory Theatre. She has taught acting in Chicago and in Madison, Wisconsin. Lisa has edited several documentary films in Los Angeles and Chicago and is currently working on a documentary about Chinese Americans in the Mississippi Delta in collaboration with Professor Stacey Lee of UW-Wisconsin/Madison. A monologue from her novel-in-progress, Original Sin, appears in Monologues By Women For Women (Heinemann, 2005).