Lisa D'Amour

Lisa D’Amour is a playwright and interdisciplinary artist from New Orleans, Louisiana. Her plays have been produced at theaters across the globe, including Manhattan Theater Club’s Samuel J. Friedman Theater on Broadway, Playwrights Horizons, Steppenwolf Theater, Catastrophic Theater and the National Theater (London). Her play Detroit was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, and she has been honored with two OBIE Awards. Lisa’s company PearlDamour makes interdisciplinary, often site-specific works, most recently premiering and touring Ocean Filibuster, a genre-crashing human-ocean showdown.