Lisa D'Amour Lisa D'Amour is an OBIE-award winning playwright and interdisciplinary artist. She writes plays for theaters, and collaborates with artists of different disciplines on work often presented in non-traditional sites. As a playwright, Lisa's work has been produced by such theaters as New Georges, Clubbed Thumb, The Women's Project and HERE Arts Center (NYC); Salvage Vanguard, Physical Plant and Refraction Arts (Austin); Infernal Bridegroom Productions (Houston); Crowded Fire Theater (San Francisco); Ten Thousand Things, the Red Eye Collaboration and Children's Theater Company (Minneapolis). She has been commissioned to write plays by Playwrights' Horizons, Children's Theater Company, the Guthrie Theater and The Talking Band, and is currently working on a two-play commission for Steppenwolf Theater. Lisa most often makes her interdisciplinary work with close collaborator, Katie Pearl. Most recently, they presented their dance-theater piece Terrible Things at PS122, with choreography by Emily Johnson. In June 2011, they will premiere How to Build a Forest, in which Lisa and Katie will assemble and disassemble a simulated forest on stage over the course of an 8 hour work day. Lisa and Katie's interdisciplinary work has been commissioned by The Whitney Museum of Art, The Mitchell Center for the Arts (Houston) and Brookfield Properties (NYC) and has been presented by HERE Arts Center, The Walker Arts Center (Minneapolis), ArtSpot Productions (New Orleans) and the Fuse Box Festival (Austin). Lisa's other interdisciplinary collaborations include Stanley (2006) a solo performance she created for her brother, Todd D'Amour, and a performance for visual artist SWOON's Swimming Cities of Switchback Sea, a flotilla of six boats created from salvaged materials that navigated the Hudson River in August 2008, performing in riverfront parks from Troy, NY to New York City. In 2008, Lisa received the Alpert Award in the Arts in Theater administered by the Alpert Foundation and the California Institute for the Arts. She has received fellowships from the Jerome and McKnight Foundations, two independent artist commissions from NYSCA and an NEA / TCG Playwrights' Residency. Lisa is currently a visiting lecturer in Playwriting at Brown University. She is an associate member of ArtSpot Productions, a theater ensemble in N.O. Lisa received her M.F.A. in playwriting from the University of Texas at Austin. She is recent alumna of the core membership program at the Playwrights' Center and an alumna of New Dramatists.

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