Lisa Loomer

Lisa Loomer

In two season at OSF: Playwright, Roe (2017) Distracted (2007)

Other plays: Living Out; The Waiting Room; Homefree; Café Vida; Expecting Isabel; Two Things You Don’t Talk about at Dinner; Birds; Bocón!; Maria! Maria, Maria, Maria; Broken Hearts have been produced in New York, at Roundabout Theatre Company, Vineyard Theatre, Second Stage Theatre, INTAR and The Public Theater; and regionally at the Mark Taper Forum, Arena Stage, South Coast Repertory, Kennedy Center, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Denver Center Theatre Company, La Jolla Playhouse, Trinity Repertory Company, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Missouri Repertory Theatre, Cornerstone Theater Company.  Her work has also been produced in Mexico, Israel, Egypt and Germany.  

Other credits: Screenwriting: Girl, Interrupted. TV: comedies, dramas and pilots for HBO, CBS, FOX and Showtime. Member of New Dramatists. 

Awards: American Theatre Critics Award (twice), Kennedy Center Fund for New American Plays Award, Lurie Foundation Award, Edgerton Foundation New American Plays Award, Imagen Foundation Award, Jane Chambers Playwriting Award (twice) and the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, among others. Currently, she is writing the book for a musical for Broadway.