Lisa D'Amour
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Lisa D'Amour is an Obie Award
winning playwright, performer, and former Carnival Queen from New Orleans who resides in New York
. Ms. D'Amour is an alumnus of New Dramatists.
D'Amour plays have included Hide Town produced by Infernal Bridegroom Productions
, Houston (2006), Anna Bella Eema 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), the Obie Award–winning play Nita and Zita Produced by HERE, NYC 2003 and ArtSpot Productions, New Orleans, 2002, The Cataract at the Women's Project in New York
(originally produced by PlayLabs, Minneapolis, MN, 2003 and then in Providence, Rhode Island by Perishable Theatre). Also, STANLEY 2006 was to go up at HERE Arts Center in SoHo, NYC but was withdrawn due to an intellectual property dispute involving the character Stanley Kowalski
.
February 2008 - Lisa received a grant from the Alpert Awards in the Arts
in Theatre, a $75,000 mid-career grant. In summer 2008 D'Amour and collaborator Katie Pearl received 'MAP' fund award for Terrible Things. August 2008 - Lisa collaborated with the printmaker / installation artist SWOON
on Swimming Cities of Switchback Sea, a fleet of seven intricately handcrafted vessels that navigated the Hudson River in August 2008. Lisa made a performance to be presented by the crew in towns along the Hudson.
D'Amour's play Detroit
premièred on Broadway in the early fall of 2011, coming off the production at the Steppenwolf Theatre Company
, directed by Austin Pendleton
.
Obie Award
The Obie Awards or Off-Broadway Theater Awards are annual awards given by The Village Voice newspaper to theatre artists and groups in New York City...
winning playwright, performer, and former Carnival Queen from New Orleans who resides in New York
New York
New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...
. Ms. D'Amour is an alumnus of New Dramatists.
D'Amour plays have included Hide Town produced by Infernal Bridegroom Productions
Infernal Bridegroom Productions
Infernal Bridegroom Productions was a theater company located in Houston, Texas, formed in 1993 and dissolved in 2007. IBP garnered national attention when it was featured on the cover of American Theatre in September, 2002, for its original play, We Have Some Planes, by Brian Jucha, about the...
, Houston (2006), Anna Bella Eema 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), the Obie Award–winning play Nita and Zita Produced by HERE, NYC 2003 and ArtSpot Productions, New Orleans, 2002, The Cataract at the Women's Project in New York
New York
New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...
(originally produced by PlayLabs, Minneapolis, MN, 2003 and then in Providence, Rhode Island by Perishable Theatre). Also, STANLEY 2006 was to go up at HERE Arts Center in SoHo, NYC but was withdrawn due to an intellectual property dispute involving the character Stanley Kowalski
Stanley Kowalski
Stanley Kowalski is a fictional character in Tennessee Williams' play A Streetcar Named Desire.-In the play:Stanley lives in the working class Faubourg Marigny neighborhood of New Orleans with his wife, Stella , and is employed as a factory parts salesman. He was an Army engineer in WWII, having...
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February 2008 - Lisa received a grant from the Alpert Awards in the Arts
Alpert Awards in the Arts
The CalArts/Alpert Award in the Arts was established in the 1994 by The Herb Alpert Foundation in collaboration with the California Institute of the Arts . The foundation provides $50,000 annual fellowship to five artists in the field of film and video, visual arts, theatre, dance, and music....
in Theatre, a $75,000 mid-career grant. In summer 2008 D'Amour and collaborator Katie Pearl received 'MAP' fund award for Terrible Things. August 2008 - Lisa collaborated with the printmaker / installation artist SWOON
Swoon (artist)
Swoon is a street artist born in New London, Connecticut, and raised in Daytona Beach, Florida. She moved to New York City at age nineteen, and specializes in life-size wheatpaste prints and paper cutouts of figures...
on Swimming Cities of Switchback Sea, a fleet of seven intricately handcrafted vessels that navigated the Hudson River in August 2008. Lisa made a performance to be presented by the crew in towns along the Hudson.
D'Amour's play Detroit
Detroit (play)
Detroit is a play by Lisa D'Amour. A finalist for the Pulitzer and Susan Smith Blackburn Prizes, the production will be mounted on Broadway after a premiere at the Steppenwolf Theatre Company's Chicago venue.- Synopsis :...
premièred on Broadway in the early fall of 2011, coming off the production at the Steppenwolf Theatre Company
Steppenwolf Theatre Company
Steppenwolf Theatre Company is a Tony Award-winning Chicago theatre company founded in 1974 by Gary Sinise, Terry Kinney and Jeff Perry in the basement of a church in Highland Park, Illinois. It has since relocated to Chicago's Halsted Street, in the Lincoln Park neighborhood. Its name comes from...
, directed by Austin Pendleton
Austin Pendleton
Austin Pendleton is an American film, television, and stage actor, a playwright, and a theatre director and instructor.-Life and career:...
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