Lisa Rothe

Teaches at Primary Stages ESPA

Lisa Rothe was recently nominated for SDC's Joe A. Callaway Award for Direction for Hold These Truths by Jeanne Sakata, produced by Epic Theatre Ensemble in NYC (also produced at the Honolulu Theatre for Youth, the SoloNova Festival in NYC, Playmakers Repertory Theatre in North Carolina, and ACT Theatre in Seattle). Recent projects: Dear Elizabeth by Sarah Ruhl (People's Light & Theatre Company); Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Chautauqua Theatre Company);Penelope by Ellen McLaughlin & composer Sarah Kirkland Snider (Playmakers Repertory Company); Ada, a new opera about Ada Byron, by composer Kim Sherman and librettist Margaret Vandenburg, presented as a part of the Center for Contemporary Opera's Development Series. Lisa has workshopped, developed, and directed over one hundred new plays and musicals, working with many award-winning writers. In NY, she has directed and/or developed work with the Lark Play Development Center, New York Theatre Workshop, The Public Theater, Epic Theatre Ensemble, New Georges, The Women's Project, Primary Stages, The Foundry, Ensemble Studio Theatre, 52nd Street Project, Naked Angels, BAM, Summer Play Festival, NYMF, Midtown International Theatre Festival (Best Director), National Actors Theater, Keen Company (Keen Teens), Orchard Project, Voice & Vision, HERE, Dixon Place, and has taught and directed at NYU's Graduate Acting Program, Yale School of Drama, The Juilliard School, Chautauqua Conservatory, ESPA at Primary Stages, and many other training programs across the country. Lisa is a graduate of NYU's Graduate Acting Program and Director's Lab, as well as a Drama League alum, Fox Fellow, alum of the Women's Project Director's Lab, and currently serves on the board of the League of Professional Theatre Women as the VP of Membership. Lisa is also the Director of Offsite Programs and Partnerships at the Lark Play Development Center, where she provides expanded opportunities for playwrights, aimed at advancing new work to production nationally and globally.