Lisa B. Thompson is an award winning artist, scholar, and teacher whose plays have been produced and developed by institutions such as Brava for Women in the Arts!, New Professional Theatre, The Vortex Repertory, Theatre Rhinoceros, Crossroads Theatre, Austin Playhouse, National Arts Festival in Grahamstown, South Africa, Company of Angels Theater, New African Grove Theatre Company, Black Spectrum Theatre, Montreal Fringe Festival, and the National Black Theatre Festival. Her plays include the off-Broadway show SINGLE BLACK FEMALE (LA Weekly Theatre Award best comedy nominee), UNDERGROUND (Austin Critics Table David Mark Cohen New Play Award), MONROE (Austin Playhouse Festival of New Texas Plays winner), THE MAMALOGUES (Vortex Repertory Company, Broadway World Regional Awards- Best Writing of an Original Work), and DINNER (Crossroads Theatre Genesis New Play Festival, Bay Area Playwrights Festival Semi-Finalist). Thompson is also Professor of African & African Diaspora Studies at the University of Texas at Austin and the author of the book, Beyond the Black Lady: Sexuality and the New African American Middle Class, and Underground, Monroe, and The Mamalogues: Three Plays. Her work has been published in Contemporary Plays by African American Women: Ten Complete Works, and Catch The Fire: A Cross-Generational Anthology of Contemporary African American Poetry. Thompson’s has received support from a number of institutions, including the MacDowell Colony, Hedgebrook, Harvard University’s W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research, the American Council of Learned Societies, the Center for Race and Democracy, the University of California’s Office of the President, Michele R. Clayman Institute for Gender Research at Stanford University, UCLA’s Center for African American Studies, the Five Colleges Inc., Stanford University’s Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity, the Millay Colony for the Arts, and MacDowell.