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Biography
Lisa Schlesinger’s plays include Iphigenia Point Blank, the Celestial Bodies trilogy, The Bones of Danny Winston, Rock Ends Ahead, winner of the BBC International Playwriting Award, In the Wake of the Graybow Riots, and Twenty-one Positions with Naomi Wallace and Abdel Fattah AbuSrour. Her playwriting project, Endangered States of America, maps the ruins of ecosystems caused by climate change, neoliberalism and extreme capitalism, on the American landscape. Lisa is currently working Ruinous Gods, part of the Iphigenia Project, a multi-year multi-disciplinary series of works focused on the refugee crisis. Begun in 2012 and adapted from Euripides’ Iphigenia plays, the project uses film, music, theatre, and digital arts to respond to the refugee crisis and the global displacement of peoples.
Lisa has received commissions from the Guthrie, the BBC, Upstart Crow Project, and fellowships from the NEA and CEC Artslink International among others. She is recipient of the NEA/TCG Playwrights Residency Award and winner of the BBC International Playwriting Award. She recently received an Iowa Arts Fellowship. A recipient of the NEA/TCG Playwrights Residency Award, the BBC International Playwriting Award, and a finalist for a United States Artists Fellowship, her work is produced nationally and internationally on the stage and radio.
Lisa's work is published in American Theatre Magazine, Performing Arts Journal, Theatre Communications Group, Theater, Fourth River, and the New York Times. Her plays are published with Broadway Play Publishing, and forthcoming from NoPassport and Playwrights Canada Press. She is an affiliated artist with Sleeping Weazel Inc. in Boston and an associated artists with In Parentheses in New York City. Originally from New York City, she now lives in Iowa City. She is Co-head of the Iowa Playwrights Workshop at the University of Iowa.
OPERA America/Opera.ca Grants Awarded
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| GRANT NAME | YEAR | Opera Grants for Women Composers: Commissioning Grants | 2022 | Opera Grants for Women Composers: Discovery Grants | 2022 |
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