Lisa D’Amour
Playwright & Interdisciplinary Alchemist
Lisa D’Amour is a playwright and interdisciplinary artist from New Orleans, Louisiana. Her plays have been produced across the globe, including at MTC’s Samuel J. Friedman Theater on Broadway, Playwrights Horizons, Steppenwolf Theater, Catastrophic Theater and The National Theater (London). Her play Detroit was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and Susan Smith Blackburn prize, and she has been honored with two OBIE Awards. Lisa’s company PearlDamour makes interdisciplinary, often site-specific works, most recently premiering and touring Ocean Filibuster, a genre-crashing human-ocean showdown.
NEXT: Lisa will be the keynote speaker for the Philadelphia Research Symposium at Villanova University on May 5.
DETROIT - Playwrights Horizons, directed by Anne Kauffman. Pulitzer Prize Finalist, OBIE Award for Best New American Play.
AIRLINE HIGHWAY - Steppenwolf Theater + Samuel J. Friedman Theatre. Directed by Joe Mantello. Nominated for 4 Tony Awards.
OCEAN FILIBUSTER - Created by PearlDamour. American Repertory Theater. Directed by Katie Pearl.
"My hope is that the theatre I make invites people to shake off any unwanted thought patterns that rule them, and move toward something new in themselves and in the world." – Lisa, in rehearsals for Airline Highway at the Samuel J. Friedman Theater.
CHEROKEE - The Wilma Theater. Directed by Anne Kauffman.
THE CATARACT - WP Theater. Directed by Katie Pearl.
FROZEN SECTION - Catastrophic Theater. Directed by Jason Nodler.
