Lisa D’Amour

is a playwright and interdisciplinary artist. She received her M.F.A. in playwriting from the University of Texas at Austin. She is a core member of the Playwrights’ Center and a recent is a playwright, educator and interdisciplinary collaborator from New Orleans. Her plays have been produced across the US and the Globe , including at Manhattan Theater Club (NYC – Broadway), Playwrights Horizons (NYC), Steppenwolf Theater (Chicago), ArtSpot Productions (New Orleans), The National Theater (UK) and of course Catastrophic Theatre. In addition to writing plays, Lisa is co-Artistic Director of PearlDamour, a company that creates interdisciplinary, often site-specific performances that range from intimate to large scale. Recent work with PearlDamour includes Ocean Filibuster, a genre-crashing human-ocean showdown (currently touring), and MILTON, a performance and community engagement experiment rooted in 5 U.S. towns named Milton. Lisa’s play Detroit was a finalist for the 2011 Pulitzer Prize and the 2011 Susan Smith Blackburn prize. She is the recipient of the 2008 Alpert Award for the Arts in theater, the 2011 Steinberg Playwright Award and a 2013 Doris Duke Performing Artist Award. Lisa received an MFA in Playwriting from UT Austin is currently the Distinguished Lecturer in Playwriting at the University of Houston. She lives in New Orleans where she is on the co-leadership team for Trinity City Arts.