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Lisa Peterson

LISA PETERSON

  
Nationality:    USA
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Literary Agent:    ICM Partners  represented by Ross Weiner

Recent NY credits include An Iliad, written with Denis OHare (NYTW- 2012 Obie Award, Lortel Award, Drama Desk nominations); Shipwrecked by Donald Margulies and Motherhood Outloud by 15 writers (Primary Stages); The Trestle at Pope Lick Creek by Naomi Wallace, Slavs! (Thinking About the Longstanding Problems of Virtue and Happiness) by Tony Kushner, Traps by Caryl Churchill, The Waves adapted from Virginia Woolf by Peterson and David Bucknam (Drama Desk nominations) and Light Shining in Buckinghamshire by Caryl Churchill (Obie Award for Directing), all at New York Theatre Workshop; The Fourth Sister by Janusz Glowacki and The Batting Cage by Joan Ackerman (Vineyard Theatre); The Poor Itch by John Belluso, The Square by 16 writers, and Tongue of a Bird (The Public); Collected Stories by Donald Margulies (MTC); Birdy adapted from the William Wharton novel by Naomi Wallace (Womens Project); The Chemistry of Change by Marlane Meyer (Playwrights Horizons/WPP); The Model Apartment by Donald Margulies (Primary Stages); and Sueno by Jose Rivera (MCC). Lisa has directed regionally at the Mark Taper Forum (where she was Resident Director for 10 years), La Jolla Playhouse (Associate Director for 3 years), Guthrie, Berkeley Rep, Seattle Rep, Arena Stage, McCarter, Actors Theater of Louisville, Hartford Stage, Long Wharf, Yale Rep, Baltimore Center Stage, Huntington, Dallas Theater Center, Oregon Shakespeare Festival and California Shakespeare Theater. She is a Usual Suspect at NYTW, a member of Ensemble Studio Theater, and on the executive board of SDC.

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         Black Butterfly, Super Chela, Pinata Woman And Other Super Hero Girls Like Me         Iliad, An

Black Butterfly, Super Chela, Pinata Woman And Other Super Hero Girls Like Me

Synopsis:
For five girls living in gritty east L.A., growing up takes place in a world where parents refuse to speak ingles, girls in magazines never resemble the girl in the mirror, and boys only want to get some other girl's number. Told through monologues, vignettes, and poetic interludes, Black Butterfly, Jaguar Girl, Pinata Woman and Other Superhero Girls, Like Me gives an honest and compelling voice to the painful, wistful, and amusing experiences of their urban adolescence.

Notes:
adapted by Luis Alfaro And Lisa Peterson; based on the writings of Alma Elene Cervantes, Sandra C. Munoz And Marisela Norte

1st Produced:
Center Theatre Group/Mark Taper Forum, Los Angeles, Ca     pre 1998

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Playwrights, Inc   -

Music:
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Genre:
short comedy Drama. - - Gay, full length

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  5            Other:  -

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Iliad, An

Synopsis:
AN ILIAD is a modern-day retelling of Homer's classic. Poetry and humor, the ancient tale of the Trojan War and the modern world collide in this captivating theatrical experience. The setting is simple: the empty theater. The time is now: the present moment. The lone figure onstage is a storytellerpossibly Homer, possibly one of the many bards who followed in his footsteps. He is fated to tell this story throughout history.

Notes:
An Iliad by Lisa Peterson and Denis O'Hare . Based on Homer's the Iliad., translated by Robert Fagles

1st Produced:
New York Theatre Workshop
79 East 4th Street, New York, NY 10003     15 Feb 2012

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, Inc   978-0822226871

Music:
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Genre:
adaptation

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  -            Other:  -

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