Daryl Lisa Fazio

Daryl Lisa Fazio

Daryl Lisa Fazio is a playwright, actor, and freelance graphic designer for theatre based in Atlanta, Georgia. Her plays have been produced Off-Broadway and regionally at Horizon Theatre (commission), Florida Rep, Aurora Theatre, and The Weird Sisters Theatre Project, as well as at various universities. Musicals, for which she is the lyricist/librettist, have been awarded productions and readings in NYC by the...
Daryl Lisa Fazio is a playwright, actor, and freelance graphic designer for theatre based in Atlanta, Georgia. Her plays have been produced Off-Broadway and regionally at Horizon Theatre (commission), Florida Rep, Aurora Theatre, and The Weird Sisters Theatre Project, as well as at various universities. Musicals, for which she is the lyricist/librettist, have been awarded productions and readings in NYC by the National Alliance for Musical Theatre Festival of New Musicals, the New York Musical Theatre Festival, and York Theatre Company. Upcoming is a world premiere at Actor's Express in Atlanta. She has degrees in Theatre (Northwestern University) and Graphic Design (University of Memphis) and occasionally has flashbacks to her previous life as a college professor. Daryl is a proud member of the Dramatists Guild and is claimed as a dependent by several dogs and cats.

Plays

  • Medica by Daryl Lisa Fazio
    Cast: 
    4
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    Genre: drama, science fiction
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    Keyword: sci-fi, strong female roles + 6 more
    Genre: drama, science fiction
    Keyword: sci-fi, strong female roles, medicine, magical realism, surrealism, war, Witches, alternate reality
    In a surgical tent, on the frontlines of a 30-year war, some place arid and austere—some time maybe now, maybe then, maybe much later—two isolated doctors use their wits, skills, and imaginations to keep the boys alive. Initially only in a battle with shrapnel, hunger, and their own diehard senses of empathy, the women are suddenly faced with a new enemy: the world’s first male doctor.
  • The Flower Room by Daryl Lisa Fazio
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    4
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    Genre: comedy
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    Keyword: Sex, sexuality + 7 more
    Genre: comedy
    Keyword: Sex, sexuality, smart women, female, anthropology, gay, polysexual, Lesbian, Erotica
    Ingrid, an uptight and unwittingly alluring anthropologist of primitive sexual behavior, has apparently done a terrible job of distinguishing who she is from what she teaches. When a slew of students at her college call foul and cry wolf, Ingrid finds herself jobless and without a compass. Until her brother suggests a new career writing erotica, and even while Ingrid’s stunted sexuality tries to stay hidden,...
    Ingrid, an uptight and unwittingly alluring anthropologist of primitive sexual behavior, has apparently done a terrible job of distinguishing who she is from what she teaches. When a slew of students at her college call foul and cry wolf, Ingrid finds herself jobless and without a compass. Until her brother suggests a new career writing erotica, and even while Ingrid’s stunted sexuality tries to stay hidden, her beating heart is clawing its way out.
  • Freed Spirits by Daryl Lisa Fazio
    Cast: 
    6
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    Genre: adventure, comedy + 2 more
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    Keyword: strong female roles, race relations + 2 more
    Genre: adventure, comedy, holiday, mystery/thriller
    Keyword: strong female roles, race relations, History, ghosts
    A great play for Halloween. Brainy outcast, Susan Dickey, gives tours at Atlanta’s historic Oakland Cemetery in hopes that its vibrant past might make her own present feel less stuck. Mostly, she wanders the brick walkways amidst the towering mausolea quite alone, until one spring day when a freak tornado cuts a swath through her sanctuary and churns up not only a buried mystery, but also a cadre of urban...
    A great play for Halloween. Brainy outcast, Susan Dickey, gives tours at Atlanta’s historic Oakland Cemetery in hopes that its vibrant past might make her own present feel less stuck. Mostly, she wanders the brick walkways amidst the towering mausolea quite alone, until one spring day when a freak tornado cuts a swath through her sanctuary and churns up not only a buried mystery, but also a cadre of urban misfits. Despite being sociopaths, introverts, and cantankerous geniuses, they’ll come together to confront unexplained visions in an attempt to save themselves and the cemetery from oblivion.
  • POPart: The Musical by Daryl Lisa Fazio
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    12–20
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    Genre: comedy, musical + 1 more
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    Keyword: girl power, gay characters + 3 more
    Genre: comedy, musical, parody/spoof
    Keyword: girl power, gay characters, art history, irreverent, zany
    Book & Lyrics by Daryl Lisa Fazio • Music by Aaron McAllister We’re off to see the wizard when young, impressionable, and slightly batty Kitty Katz enrolls in art school in this irreverent and campy original musical. Kitty’s suburbia-to-ghetto-to-SHoHo story will allow us glimpses of acceptance, genius, insanity, and plenty of the stuff called art.
  • Greyhounds by Daryl Lisa Fazio
    Cast: 
    2
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    Genre: drama
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    Keyword: two-hander, Leading Ladies
    Genre: drama
    Keyword: two-hander, Leading Ladies
    Circumstance brings together two vastly different women at a rural Oklahoma bus stop in the wee hours, beginning a dance of hurt, humor, and intense longing for connection that could bridge the gap over two painful pasts. A horrible discovery mid-way through the night proves to be a catalyst for revelation, transformation, and, ultimately, that desperate link. Are these women truly opposites? Who will they be...
    Circumstance brings together two vastly different women at a rural Oklahoma bus stop in the wee hours, beginning a dance of hurt, humor, and intense longing for connection that could bridge the gap over two painful pasts. A horrible discovery mid-way through the night proves to be a catalyst for revelation, transformation, and, ultimately, that desperate link. Are these women truly opposites? Who will they be when the next bus comes?
  • Split in Three by Daryl Lisa Fazio
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    5
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    Genre: comedy, drama + 1 more
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    Keyword: Leading Ladies, race relations + 1 more
    Genre: comedy, drama, period
    Keyword: Leading Ladies, race relations, American South
    The Mississippi Delta. 1969. The Supreme Court has put its foot down and in this last county, desegregation must dissolve. Poor, white sisters, Nola and Nell, one grounded by cynicism and the other by faith, live day-to-day. Until they discover a mixed-race, highly-educated sister they never knew they had. And in a place where separation begets isolation, difference turns out to be a saving grace.
  • Deer Play by Daryl Lisa Fazio
    Cast: 
    5
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy + 1 more
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    Keyword: magical realism, American South + 2 more
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy, experimental
    Keyword: magical realism, American South, strong female roles, Talking Animals
    When Mississippi good ol’ boy and champion deer hunter, Oscar Moak, one day doesn’t seem able to shoot, he and a very charming doe take his family on a wild ride. While Oscar shuts down, the doe coaxes him out. While Oscar’s father loses the will to fight, his mother takes home renovations into her own hands, and his devoted wife discovers adrenaline. If you’re afraid to die, does it also mean you’re afraid to...
    When Mississippi good ol’ boy and champion deer hunter, Oscar Moak, one day doesn’t seem able to shoot, he and a very charming doe take his family on a wild ride. While Oscar shuts down, the doe coaxes him out. While Oscar’s father loses the will to fight, his mother takes home renovations into her own hands, and his devoted wife discovers adrenaline. If you’re afraid to die, does it also mean you’re afraid to live?
  • lift, a new musical by Daryl Lisa Fazio
    Cast: 
    11
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    Genre: drama, musical
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    Keyword: strong female roles, magical realism + 1 more
    Genre: drama, musical
    Keyword: strong female roles, magical realism, loss and redemption
    Book and Lyrics by Daryl Lisa Fazio • Music by Aaron McAllister. In a spunky working-class Ohio town, 8-year old Ethan Hale falls through the ice and is miraculously saved. But no one sees the rescue. And no one steps forward as the hero. So when Ethan, who not long ago lost his dad in a freak accident, insists that it was a "birdman," his friends and family grapple with questions about faith and...
    Book and Lyrics by Daryl Lisa Fazio • Music by Aaron McAllister. In a spunky working-class Ohio town, 8-year old Ethan Hale falls through the ice and is miraculously saved. But no one sees the rescue. And no one steps forward as the hero. So when Ethan, who not long ago lost his dad in a freak accident, insists that it was a "birdman," his friends and family grapple with questions about faith and their desperation to connect as the truth unfolds.