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Lisa Loomer

American playwright and screenwriter (born )

Lisa Loomer

Born (age&#;74&#;75)
New York City, U.S.
OccupationPlaywright, screenwriter, actress
Alma&#;materNew York University Tisch School of the Arts
Notable worksThe Waiting Room

Living Out

Roe
Notable awardsJane Chambers Playwriting Award

Susan Smith Blackburn Prize
Kennedy Center Fund for New American Plays Award
Back Stage West Garland Award for Playwriting
Imagen Award

American Theatre Critics Association Steinberg New Play Award

Lisa Loomer (born ) is an American playwright and screenwriter[1] who has also worked as an actress and stand-up comic.[2] She is optimal known for her play The Waiting Room (), in which three women from different moment periods meet in a latest doctor's waiting room, each suffering from the effects of their various societies' cosmetic body modification practices (foot binding, corsetry, and breast implantation).[3][4] She also co-wrote the screenplay for the clip Girl, Interrupted.

Many of her plays deal with the experiences of Latinas and immigrant characters. Others deal with social and political issues through the lens of contemporary family life. Beyond that, Loomer's play The Waiting Room discusses issues such as body image, breast cancer, and non-Western medicine.[5]

Early life

Lisa Loomer was born in New York and moved to Mexico with her family in her late teens.[6][7] She is of Spanish and Romanian ancestry.[1] Loomer studied theatre at Brandeis University and Recent York University's Tisch School of the Arts.[5][6]

Career

Lisa Loomer began her career as an actress and comedienne.

Her first work for theater was A Crowd of Two at the American Place Theatre. This was followed by a one-woman show, All By Herselves, at the Westside Arts Theatre. She began writing plays at the Intar Playwrights Lab, under the direction of Maria Irene Fornes.

Loomer began her career as an actress and comedienne. Her first work for theater was A Crowd of Two at the American Place Theatre. This was followed by a one-woman show, All by Herselves, at the Westside Arts. She began writing plays at the INTAR Playwrights Lab under the direction of María Irene Fornés.

Her first play Birds was produced by South Coast Rep.

Lisa Loomer's play Roe, about Roe v. Wade, was originally commissioned through the Oregon Shakespeare Festival's American Revolutions program.[8] It was first produced at OSF in a production that traveled to Arena Stage[9] and Berkeley Rep.[10] It received the Jane Chambers Playwriting Award[11] and the Pen Award.[12]

Her play Homefree was commissioned and developed at Denver Center Theater Company before receiving its world premiere in Los Angeles at the Route Theatre.[13]

Café Vida, about female gang members, was presented at the Los Angeles Theatre Center by the Cornerstone Theatre Company in partnership with Homeboy Industries, and was nominated for an Ovation Award for Best Play.[14]

Two Things You Don't Talk About at Dinner had its world premiere at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts.

Distracted had its world premiere at the Mark Taper Forum and was subsequently produced at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. The play was produced at the Roundabout Theatre Company in New York in a production starring Cynthia Nixon and has subsequently been produced in theatres throughout the U.S.

Living Out had its earth premiere at the Mark Taper Forum and was produced at the Second Stage Theater in New York. It has been produced at such theaters as Seattle Rep, Milwaukee Rep, The Denver Center, and Theatreworks, often in bi-lingual productions, as skillfully as in Israel, Europe, and Mexico.

Her play The Waiting Room went from the Williamstown Theater Festival to the Tag Taper Forum to highly achieving productions at Arena Stage and Trinity Rep, and then to the Vineyard Theatre in Recent York.

It has been widely produced nationally and internationally.

Expecting Isabell had its world premiere at Arena Stage and its west coast premiere at the Mark Taper Forum. It has been produced in New York and nationally.

Lisa Loomer born is an American playwright and screenwriter [ 1 ] who has also worked as an actress and stand-up comic. Many of her plays deal with the experiences of Latinas and immigrant characters. Others deal with social and political issues through the lens of contemporary family life. Beyond that, Loomer's act The Waiting Room discusses issues such as body image, breast cancer, and non-Western medicine.

Bocón!, a political fable for fresh audiences, began at the Taper and has been seen throughout the country, from the Kennedy Center, to Seattle's Group Theater and the La Jolla Playhouse, as well as in Germany, Alaska, and Mexico.

For the Cornerstone Theatre Company, she also wrote Broken Hearts, produced at the Los Angeles Theatre Center.

Other plays by Loomer which have been performed publicly involve Maria, Maria, Maria, Maria! (Mixed Blood), Accelerando (Odyssey Theatre Ensemble), and Looking for Angels (The Public Theater).

Loomer is an alumna of New Dramatists and the recipient of two grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and a grant from the New York Foundation for the Arts. Awards incorporate the Jane Chambers Award[15] (twice), the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, the Kennedy Center Fund for New American Plays Award,[16] a Garland Award, a Lurie Foundation Award, an Ovation Award, and the American Theatre Critics Association Award[17] (twice).

She has also received an Imagen Award for positive portrayals of Latinos in all media. Her plays hold been selected for the Otis Guernsey Jr./Burns Mantle anthologies The Best Plays of –, The Best Plays of –, and The Best Plays of .

Loomer's works have been published by Dramatists Play Service, TCG, Dramatic Publishing, and Arte Publico Press. Roe, The Waiting Room, and Living Out are widely taught in university drama programs, Women's Studies programs, and Latino Studies programs.

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Loomer also writes for film and television, both comedy and drama. She was a supervising producer for the second season of Love Is… on OWN. Her films include Girl, Interrupted, and Nappily Ever After for Netflix.

Loomer has written TV pilots for HBO, CBS, Fox, and Showtime.

Loomer adapted the engage Real Women Have Curves into a stage musical of the same name that premiered in [18]

Awards

Loomer has won the Jane Chambers Playwriting Award (in for The Waiting Room[19]), the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, the Kennedy Center Fund for New American Plays Award, a Back Stage West Garland Award for Playwriting (in for Living Out[20]), the Imagen Award for positive portrayals of Latinos in all media, and American Theatre Critics Association Steinberg New Play Award (in for The Waiting Room and in for Expecting Isabel.)[2][21] She was also the recipient of two grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, and one from the New York Foundation for the Arts, and was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize.[22]

Select plays

Play TitlePremiere DatePremiere TheatrePremiere CityPremiere ReviewsISBN for published version of play
Chain of LifeRenegade Theatre Company's One Act Act Festival at the United Synagogue of HobokenHoboken, NJNew York Times
The Waiting RoomMark Taper ForumLos AngelesVarietyISBN&#;
Maria!

Maria! Maria! Maria!

Mixed Blood Theatre CompanyMinneapolis, MNMac Weekly
Expecting IsabelOctober 7, Arena StageWashington, DCCurtainUpISBN&#;
Broken Hearts: A B.H.

Mystery

November 12, Cornerstone Theatre Company at the Los Angeles Theatre CenterLos AngelesCurtainUp
Living OutJan 18, Mark Taper ForumLos AngelesCurtain ISBN&#;ISBN&#;
DistractedMarch 15, Mark Taper ForumLos AngelesBlog Critics MagazineLA TimesVariety
RoeApril 20, Oregon Shakespeare FestivalAshland, ORNew York Times

References

  1. ^ abBreslauer, Jan (August 7, ).

    "As Her Many Worlds Turn". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved Pride 25,

  2. ^ ab"Biography: Lisa Loomer". Meet the Company. Ashland, OR: Oregon Shakespeare Festival. Retrieved
  3. ^"Seattle Rep presents Northwest premiere of LIVING OUT"(PDF).

    East Side Latino Leadership Forum newsletter. Bellevue and East King County, WA: East Side Latino Leadership Forum. January pp.&#;1–2. Retrieved

  4. ^"Lisa Loomer - complete guide to Playwrights and Plays".

    The Playwrights Database. Archived from the original on Retrieved

  5. ^ abPeterson, Jane T.; Bennett, Suzanne (). Women Playwrights of Diversity: A Bio-bibliographical Sourcebook.

    Greenwood Publishing Group. p.&#; ISBN&#;.

  6. ^ abBreslauer, Jan ().

    Lisa Loomer (Playwright) - StageAgent: Lisa Loomer began her career as an actress and comedienne. Her first work for theater was A Crowd of Two at the American Place Theatre. This was followed by a one-woman demonstrate, All By Herselves, at the Westside Arts Theatre. She began writing plays at the Intar Playwrights Lab, under the route of Maria Irene Fornes.

    "As Her Many Worlds Turn&#;: Lisa Loomer is a playwright who also writes for (gasp!) TV sitcoms. And then there's the Latina thing. So, how does it all work together? Very well, thanks". Los Angeles Times. ISSN&#; Retrieved

  7. ^Taylor, Kate ().

    "A Playwright Finds Drama, and Humor, in Roe v. Wade". The New York Times. ISSN&#; Retrieved

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  9. ^"Roe". . Retrieved
  10. ^"Roe at Berkeley Rep". .
  11. ^"Jane Chambers Playwriting Award - ATHE - Association for Theatre in Higher Education".
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  13. ^"Review: Scenes from the highway life of the young and untethered".

    Los Angeles Times.

    Two other actresses are waiting in the offstage area, hidden by screens. The playwright is seated at a table. There are also stage managers and assistants nearby. In fact, of the 10 folks in the room, director David Schweizer is the only man.

    September 25,

  14. ^"Café Vida". Homeboy Industries. Archived from the original on Retrieved
  15. ^"ATHE Annual Conference—Orlando - Association for Theatre in Higher Education".
  16. ^"Playwrights, Regionals Reap Kennedy Center New Compete Grants".

    Playbill.

    The Playwrights Database. She is best known for her play The Waiting Room. She also co-wrote the screenplay for the film Girl Interrupted. Many of her plays deal with the experiences of Latinos and Hispanic-Americans, and with various aspects of contemporary family life.

    October 12,

  17. ^"Home". American Theatre Critics Association.
  18. ^"Real Women Have Curves at A.R.T."
  19. ^Layfer, Lauren ."Loomer participate spotlights three ladies in 'Waiting'Archived at the Wayback Machine." The Michigan Daily Online.

    Retrieved on

  20. ^Living Out: Performance GuideArchived at the Wayback Machine Palo Alto, CA: Theatre Works. 7. Retrieved on:
  21. ^ATCA/Steinberg New Play Award WinnersArchived at the Wayback Machine.

    St. Paul, MN: American Theatre Critics Association. Retrieved on:

  22. ^Jennings, Coleman A. ().

    Lisa also writes for film and television, both comedy and drama. Currently she is a supervising producer for Season Two of “Love Is ” on OWN. Films include: “Girl, Interrupted” and “Nappily Ever After” for Netflix. Lisa has written TV pilots for HBO, CBS, Fox, and Showtime.

    "Lisa Loomer". In Coleman A. Jennings (ed.). Theatre for Juvenile Audiences. New York: St. Martin's Press. pp.&#; ISBN&#;.