First Name
Lisa
Middle Name
Last Name
Konoplisky
City
Country
State or Province
NY
Job Title
Playwright, Dramaturg, Teacher
Biography
Lisa’s plays have been produced in NY, Chicago, Minneapolis, St. Louis, Alaska, and Lansing. Her play Bullseye was recently produced at The University of North Carolina School of the Arts and her play Dog Park premiered in June 2023 in Anchorage. Her plays have been developed with The Bechdel Group and The Workshop Theatre in NY and Blank Theatre in LA. Residencies include The Ragdale Foundation, Jentel, and Elsewhere Studios. She was a LAMBDA Emerging LGBTQ Voices fellow, a Tennesse Williams Scholar at the Sewanee Writers Conference and a Thomas Watson fellow in Brighton, England as well as a finalist for the Chicago Dramatist Residency. She was semi-finalist for the Inge Festival, the Ashland New Play Festival, and The Shattered Globe Global Playwrights’ Series in Chicago. Staged readings of her plays have been held at the Last Frontier Theatre Conference for nine consecutive years and she was a guest artist at the University of Wisconsin Theatre Department and the University of Wyoming Theatre and Dance Department She is certified in the teaching of Meisner Technique. Education: BA, Lafayette College, MFA (Creative Writing) Columbia College/Chicago. She is currently MFA candidate in Playwriting at NYU/Tisch (Class of 2024).
Areas of Expertise
Language(s) spoken
English, Rudimentary Hebrew
Interested in freelance opportunities
Yes