LISA SCHLESINGER

Lisa Schlesinger’s plays include Wal-martyrs, Celestial Bodies, Twenty One Positions(with Naomi Wallace and Abed Abu Srour), Same Egg, Manny and Chicken, Rock Ends Ahead, Bow Echo, and The Bones of Danny Winston. Her work has been produced both nationally and internationally. She has received commissions from the Guthrie Theatre, the BBC, various universities, and is currently under commission by the Ensemble Studio Theatre and Portland Stage Company for Harmonicus Mundi, an opera. She recently completed a short play, Our( )Town for the International Writing Program’s Global Play Project. She has received numerous awards and fellowships including the BBC International Playwriting Award, and the TCG/NEA Playwrights Residency Award, and twice the CEC Artlinks International Award. Her most recent essay, Postcards from Gaza and Other Unspeakable Geographies, is included in Out of Silence: Censorship and Self-censorship in Theatre and Performance, ed. by Caridad Svich.