Lisa is recipient of the NEA/TCG Playwrights Residency Award and winner of the BBC International Playwriting Award and a finalist for a United States Artists Fellowship.
Lisa Schlesinger’s works for stage and radio include Iphigenia Point Blank: a film opera, Celestial Bodies, Wal-martyrs, Same Egg, Manny and Chicken, Rock Ends Ahead, The Bones of Danny Winston, and Twenty-One Positions: A Cartographic Dream of the Middle East (with Naomi Wallace and Abdel AbuSrour), In the Wake of the Graybow Riots.
Winner of the BBC Playwriting Award, she has received commissions from the Guthrie Theatre, the BBC, Ensemble Studio Theatre, and fellowships from the NEA,TCG, CEC Artslink, the Sloan Foundation, the Iowa Arts Council, the International Writing Program Produced nationally and internationally, her work is published in American Theatre Magazine, Performing Arts Journal, Broadway Plays, NoPassport, Playwrights Canada Press, the New York Times and elsewhere.
Lisa is currently working on Windfall for the Havel Project and Ruinous Gods, an opera, with composer/violinist Layale Chaker. Lisa is co-head of the Iowa Playwrights Workshop at the University of Iowa.
