Lisa Loomer

Lisa Loomer is a playwright and screenwriter who has also worked as an actress and stand-up comic.cite web
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accessdate = 2007-10-12 ] She is best known for her play "The Waiting Room", in which three women from different time periods meet in a modern doctor's waiting room, each suffering from the effects of their various societies' cosmetic body modification practices (foot binding, corsetry, and breast implantation).cite news
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title = Seattle Rep presents Northwest premiere of LIVING OUT
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accessdate = 2007-10-13 ] She also co-wrote the screenplay for the film "Girl Interrupted". Loomer is an alum of the New Dramatists cite web
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accessdate = 2007-10-12 ] and was a 1985 playwright-in-residence at the Intar Theatre in New York City.cite book
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Loomer is married to composer Joe Romano; their son Marcello was born in 1998.Henerson, Evan. " [http://www.thefreelibrary.com/LADY+IN+WAITING+PLAYWRIGHT+DELIVERS+NEW+COMEDY+THAT+MEETS+ALL+HER...-a083395807 Lady in Waiting Playwright Delivers New Comedy That Meets All Her Expectations] ." "Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)." 2000-08-01. Retrieved on 2007-10-13.] [Salamon, Julie. " [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E07E0D8103FF937A25753C1A9659C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=all Playwright Maps Limits Of the Best Intentions] ." "New York Times". 2003-10-14. Retrieved on: 2007-10-13.]

Awards

Loomer has won the Jane Chambers Playwriting Award (in 1994 for "The Waiting Room" [Layfer, Lauren ." [http://www.pub.umich.edu/daily/1997/nov/11-19-97/arts/arts2.html Loomer play spotlights three ladies in 'Waiting'] ." "The Michigan Daily Online". 1997-11-19. Retrieved on 2007-10-13.] ), the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, the The Kennedy Center Fund for New American Plays Award, a Back Stage West Garland Award for Playwriting (in 2003 for "Living Out" [http://www.theatreworks.org/images/Living%20Out%20Study%20Guide.pdf Living Out: Performance Guide] Palo Alto, CA: Theatre Works. 2004. 7. Retrieved on: 2007-10-13.] ), the Imagen Award for positive portrayals of Latinos in all media, and American Theatre Critics Association Steinberg New Play Award (in 1995 for "The Waiting Room" and in 1999 for "Expecting Isabel".) [http://www.americantheatrecritics.org/pressreleases/SteinbergAwards.htm ATCA/Steinberg New Play Award Winners] . St. Paul, MN: American Theatre Critics Association. 2007. Retrieved on: 2007-10-13.] She won the Charles MacArthur Award for Outstanding New Play in 1999 for "Expecting Isabel". ] She was also the recipient of 2 grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, and one from the New York Foundation for the Arts, and was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize.

List of Works

Plays

creenplays

Note: Some screenplays may not have been produced as films.
* Looking for Angels
* Girl, Interrupted, 1999 (with James Mangold and Anna Hamilton Phelan, based on the memoir by Susanna Kaysen) ISBN 057120211X
* A Little Love, 2000 (based on the book by C.C. Medina, aka Carolina Hospital and Carlos Medina)
* Just Desserts
* Dreaming
* Brothers and Sisters
* Nappily Ever After, 2008

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