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LISA RAMIREZ
Nationality: USA
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Literary Agent: represented by Gloria Bonelli
LISA RAMIREZ (playwright) EXIT CUCKOO (nanny in motherland) was first presented Off Broadway by the Working Theater (Colman Domingo-director) and subsequently toured in various theaters throughout the U.S. and Ireland. Other writing credits include; ART OF MEMORY; a dance theatre piece, commissioned by Company SoGoNo and presented at the Ontological-Hysteric Theater and the 3-Legged Dog in New York. (Conceived and directed by Tanya Calamoneri); INVISIBLE WOMEN-RISE; a collaboration with the Foundry Theatre and Domestic Workers United. TO THE BONE; originally a Working Theater commission, was a finalist for the 2011 Smith Prize, the O'Neill National Playwrights Conference and the Ellen Stewart Award; ALL FALL DOWN was conceived/written in 2012 at INTAR during the Maria Irene Fornes Hispanic Playwrights in Residency Lab. A contributing playwright for IN MOTHER WORDS; presented at the Geffen Playhouse and various regional theatres (Lisa Peterson- director) In 2012/13 Lisa was part of the MENTOR PROJECT at the Cherry Lane Theatre where she wrote Pas de Deux (lost my shoe) (Cynthia Hopkins- mentor and Bryan Davidson Blue- director). In September 2014, the Cherry Lane Theatre (Angelina Fiordellisi- Artistic Director) presented the world premiere of TO THE BONE (Lisa Peterson-director).
Research: Member of the Dramatists Guild of America (as at 2015)
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Art Of Memory Down Here Below Exit Cuckoo To The BoneArt Of Memory
Synopsis:
Weaving together text, Butoh dance, and original music, Art of Memory is an examination of the mind and how it stores knowledge in the body. Four librarians trapped in a fantastical library search for an exit and create elaborate physical games that explore memory and illusion in Tanya Calamoneri's stark atmosphEric performance. As the shifting nature of time threatens the librarians' fragile sense of logic, they seamlessly inhabit the roles of handless maidens, the Bronte sisters, an ill wind, and minor deities. Comedic and dark by turns, the piece employs books, children's games, alchemy and questions of being as it traverses internal landscapes of memory. Inspired by Frances Yeats' Art of Memory, the text is both original, and collaged from Luis Borges' the Library of Babel, Grimm's Fairytales, and Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights.
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written by Lisa Ramirez; conceived And directed by Tanya Calamoneri
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Company SO GO NO
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Top of PageDown Here Below
Synopsis:
A camp for the homeless in Oakland California and the struggle with daily life
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Original Playwright - Maxim Gorky. Based on "The Lower Depths"
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Flax Building, Oakland, California
07 Apr 2019
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Adaptation
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Synopsis:
about the intricate and colorful culture of nannies in New York and the people who employ them
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1st Produced:
Midtown International Theatre Festival, NY
2008
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the Working Theater
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Synopsis:
TO THE BONE, by Lisa Ramirez is a contemporary American drama written in the tradition of John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men, which gives the audience a close up look into the lives of the invisible work force that puts food on our tables. The play examines the very nature of equality and justice in contemporary America through the eyes of five Central American women whose migration to the U.S. in search of a better life brings its own test of the human spirit. Ramirez spent six months interviewing immigrant poultry workers in the Catskills of upstate New York.
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Nominated for The Kilroys 2015. The Kilroys is a group of playwrights and producers in LA who publish an annual industry survey of excellent new plays by female and trans playwrights. It is a tool for producers committed to ending the systemic underrepresentation of female and trans playwrights in the American theater.
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docudrama/historic, drama, experimental, political
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