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Lisa D'Amour

Lisa D’Amour writes plays for theaters and creates site-specific performance. In 2000-10, she is developing Terrible Things, a dance-theater piece created with Katie Pearl and choreographer Emily Johnson (PS122, December 2009) and How to Build a Forest, a 12-hour installation for theaters that is being supported by the MAP Fund and Creative Capital.  Other recent projects include the Swimming Cities of Switchback Sea (a performance for a fleet of seven handmade boats designed by the visual artist SWOON) and BIRD EYE BLUE PRINT (created with Katie Pearl, for a vacant office in the World Financial Center, NYC). Lisa’s work has been presented by theaters such as Salvage Vanguard, Refraction Arts (both in Austin, TX), Infernal Bridegroom Productions (Houston, TX), the Walker Arts Center, Intermedia Arts, Childrens' Theater Company (all in Minneapolis), Clubbed Thumb, HERE Arts Center, New Georges and the Women's Project (all in New York) and has been supported by the Jerome Foundation, the McKnight Foundation, NYSCA and the NEA/TCG Residency for Playwrights.Lisa won a Village Voice OBIE Award along with Katie Pearl and Kathy Randels for Nita & Zita, which Lisa wrote and directed.  She was the 2008 recipient of the Alpert Award in the Arts.  She has taught playwriting and performance at such schools as at the University of Iowa, the University of Texas, and UCSD. Lisa lives in Brooklyn and spends a great deal of time in her hometown of New Orleans. She is a member of ArtSpot Productions, a multidisciplinary theater in N.O. She is also a core alum of the Playwrights’ Center and a recent alumna of New Dramatists.