Advisory Board – Director of Off-Site Programs, Lark New Play Development Center, NYC
Lisa Rothe was recently nominated for SDC’s Joe A. Callaway Award for Direction for Hold These Truths by Jeanne Sakata.The play was also nominated for a Drama Desk award for Best Solo Performance by actor Joel de la Fuente (and produced by Epic Theatre Ensemble in NYC). The play has had productions at the Honolulu Theatre for Youth, the SoloNova Festival in NYC, Playmakers Repertory Theatre in NC and ACT in Seattle. Favorite recent work is Dear Elizabeth by Sarah Ruhl with People’s Light & Theatre Company, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof with Chautauqua Theater Company and Penelope by Ellen McLaughlin & Sarah Kirkland Snider with Playmakers Repertory Theatre. Along with composer Kim Sherman and librettist Margaret Vandenburg, Lisa has been developing a new opera about Ada Byron (Ada) by which was presented last spring as a part of the Center for Contemporary Opera’s Development Series.
Lisa has workshopped, developed and directed over one hundred new plays and musicals, working with many award- winning writers. For the last four years, she has also been the Director of Offsite Programs and Partnerships at the Lark Play Development Center in NYC, where she deals with providing expanded opportunities for playwrights, aimed at advancing new work to production nationally and globally. Lisa has also taught and directed at many theatre programs around the country including NYU’s Graduate Acting Program,Yale School of Drama,The Juilliard School, Chautauqua Conservatory, and the Einhorn School of Performing Arts (ESPA) at Primary Stages. She is a graduate of NYU’s Graduate Acting Program and Director’s Lab, as well as a Drama League alum, Fox Fellow, member of the Women’s Project Director’s Lab and is currently serving on the boards of the League of Professional Theatre Women as the VP of Membership. One of her favorite organizations is Dr.Jane Aronson’s World Wide Orphan Foundation (WWO), where she has spent time in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia creating theatre with children and teens and for local communities.
