Lisa D'Amour

Lisa D'Amour is an Obie Award winning playwright, performer, and former Carnival Queen from New Orleans who currently resides in New York. Ms. D'Amour is a recent alumnus of New Dramatists.

Her plays have included Hide Town produced by Infernal Bridegroom Productions, Houston (2006), Anna Bella Emma Produced by New Georges, NYC (2003), Blue Theater/Physical Plant, Austin, TX (2001), Ten Thousand Things, Minneapolis. Winner, Best New Play, Austin Critics’ Table (2002) and the Obie Award winning play Nita and Zita Produced by HERE, NYC 2003 and ArtSpot Productions, New Orleans, 2002.

Her production The Cataract was recently running at the Women's Project in New York. It was originally produced by PlayLabs, Minneapolis, MN, 2003 and then in Providence, Rhode Island by Perishable Theatre.

October/November 2006: Her production of STANLEY 2006 goes up at HERE Arts Center in SoHo, NYC. The one man show stars her brother Todd d'Amour, a well known performer in the downtown NYC circuit, as a man who believes he is (and may just be) Stanley Kowalski. The show is well received by the New York Times. The subject matter is an investigation of Tennessee Williams' classic, "A Streetcar Named Desire". The play deals with loss and desire and has within it an underlying theme of the loss that was everpresent in post-Katrina New Orleans. The Tennessee Williams' Estate sent a cease and desist letter to the writer/performer duo citing intellectual property infringement and stating that the character of Stanley Kowalski was stolen from the estate. While the charge itself cannot be proven and is unfounded, the show has taken a hiatus until further notice.

January 2007 - she is working on Tale of a West Texas Marsupial Girl, to be performed at The Children's Theatre Company in Minneapolis, MN.

December 2007- she decided to bring the dinosaurs back to life, only to kill them seconds later.

February 2008 - Lisa receives the Alpert Award for Theatre, a $75,000 mid-career grant.http://www.alpertawards.org/

External links

* [http://www.lisadamour.com Lisa D'Amour]
* [http://www.newdramatists.org/lisa_damour.htm New Dramatists]
* [http://www.womensproject.org Women's Project]
* [http://www.childrenstheatre.org The Children's Theatre Company]