Lisa has designed workshops and courses for both playwrights and performers, and has taught at Universities, playwrights' service centers and acting studios, including the University of Texas at Austin, Smith College, Dartmouth College, the University of Rochester and Michael Howard Studios.

Some examples of workshops and extended classes include:

SITE-SPECIFIC THEATER
These workshops range from one afternoon to five days, and always begin with a series of simple exercises dealing with sight and kinesthetic response to space. Students explore ways of heightening an audience's experience of space to help them re-see the familiar as something theatrical and unique, as well as exploring ways in which architectural elements can actively participates in the narrative of a theater piece. These workshops can be designed as a series of short site-specific experiments, or as a longer project culminating in a 20-minute site-specific performance. This workshop usually requires a great deal of collaboration among students, and draws on the work of Anne Bogart, Frank Lloyd Wright, Herbert Greene and Meredith Monk, among others.

DIRECTOR-PLAYWRIGHT COLLABORATION
Most often team-taught with Katie Pearl, this 3 to 4 hour workshop uses written and physical experiences to explore ways of opening communication between collaborators as they work towards a finished project. Topics covered include active brainstorming, conflict management and how to lay the ground rules for a successful collaboration. This workshop is especially useful for playwrights and directors embarking on a collaboration for the first time.

WRITING, THE BODY AND THE THEATRICAL MOMENT
These 3-4 hour workshops explore ways in which a physical vocabulary can expand the possibility of theatrical meaning in a text. Students combine in-class writing about their lives with gestural vocabulary created by fellow students. In addition, this class explores the ways in which theater-time differs from everyday time, and how they can sculpt theatrical moments that engage, involve and surprise an audience. This workshop draws on the work of Laurie Carlos, Daniel Alexander Jones and Yoko Ono.

SOLO PERFORMANCE
Usually taught in eight 4-hour sessions over eight weeks, this workshop leads students through the process of creating a 20 to 30 minute solo performance of their choosing. The course begins with exercises designed to explore the seeds of a solo performance through text, movement, props and music. As the class progresses, students are given time to workshop sections of their performance in class and receive feedback from the teacher and fellow classmates. This class can be adapted to fit a shorter time frame.  

COLLABORATIVE PERFORMANCE
Usually taught in twelve or thirteen 3-hour session, this workshop is designed for actors and writers who are interested in learning how to collaborate in a group towards a company--created performance. The workshop combines exercises in writing, physicality and object work with exercises designed to build trust, perception and a group mind.    Students create work in pairs, trios and groups of five over the course of the workshop.   This class draws on the work of Anne Bogart, Elevator Repair Service, the Wooster Group and Physical Plant Theater and can be adapted to fit a shorter design frame.

UNDERGRADUATE PLAYWRITING
Lisa has taught a variety of undergraduate playwriting courses ranging from 3 weeks to a full semester. A beginning course focus heavily on character and creating a unique theatrical language for a play. Courses often include readings from work by writers such as Tennessee Williams, Suzan-Lori Parks, Naomi Izuka, George Buchner, Caryl Churchill, Maria Irene Fornes and Mac Wellman.  

GRADUATE PLAYWRITING
Lisa has taught Graduate Playwriting at U.T. Austin, as well as a workshop for Graduate Writers at Brown University. Her Graduate Classes have included a Director/Playwright Dramaturgy Class, and Workshop for Graduate Students designed to expose them to new approaches to structure and metaphor as they work on writing a full-length play. Classes often incorporate readings from architects such as Frank Lloyd Wright and Herbert Greene, philosophers such as Gaston Bachelard, and performance practitioners such as Suzan Lori-Parks, Richard Foreman, Eugenio Barba and Yoko Ono.