Teaching
Mentorship
Lisa teaches playwriting, collaboration, interdisciplinary performance and mentors playwrights and collectives who devise work.
Her workshops and classes incorporate her own work and process, in-class exercises and reading plays in concert with essays and perforamnce texts such as Trickster Makes this World by Lewis Hyde, GRAPEFRUIT by Yoko Ono and Theatrical Jazz by Omi Osun Joni L. Jones.
Lisa has taught in universities, writing centers, theaters and high schools. Most recently, Lisa served as the Distinguished Lecturer in Playwriting at the University of Houston, a position first established for Edward Albee. As the Distinguished Lecturer, she visited campus three times per year for workshops, lectures and class appearances, and mentored Juniors and Seniors in the BFA Playwriting Program. She will cycle out of this position in 2027.
If you would like to inquire about a one-on-one mentorship with Lisa, or having Lisa come to your school or organization, please write her at ljdamour@icloud.com.
Some of Lisa’s other teaching experience includes:
Hunter College - Adjunct Professor, MFA Playwriting (most Fall semesters)
University of Southern Mississippi - Blaine Quarnstrom Playwright Series Resident Playwright, Master Classes, Public Reading.
Brown University – Interim Director of MFA Playwriting, 2008-9, Visiting Professor 2009-10 and Fall Semester 2016, Interim Director of Playwriting, 2019, Visiting Professor of Playwriting, 2021-2022.
University of Iowa – Guest Instructor of Graduate and Undergraduate Playwriting, 2007-08.
University of Texas at Austin – Guest Instructor of Graduate and Undergraduate Playwriting, Fall and Spring semesters, 2003.
University of Tulsa – Public Lecture, Writing Workshop for Undergraduates, 2017
Interlochen Arts Academy – Master Classes for Actors and Creative Writing Classes, 2017
Playwrights Center – Public Q & A, Writing Workshop for Jerome and McKnight Fellows, 2017
NOLA Project Summer Arts Camp – Writing workshops for High School Students, 2017, 2016.
University of Washington – With PearlDamour, lead graduate actors through a devising process to create new performances for community groups around the UW campus, 2015-16.
Duke University – With Brendan Connelly, Fall semesder Devised Theater Class, 2015.
Theatre de L’Opsis – Montreal, CA. Guest Artist, with Brendan Connelly. 5 day workshop on writing, physical theater and vocal technique., 2008.
