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Lisa Loomer (born 1950) is an American playwright and screenwriter who has also worked as an actress and stand-up comic. She is best known for her play The Waiting Room (1994), in which three women from different time periods meet in a modern doctor's waiting room, each suffering from the effects of their various societies' cosmetic body modification practices (foot binding, corsetry, and ...
- New York University Tisch School of the Arts
- Playwright, screenwriter, actress
- The Waiting Room, Living Out, Roe
- 1950, New York City, U.S.
Lisa Loomer’s play ROE, about Roe v. Wade, was originally commissioned through the Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s American Revolutions program. It was first produced at OSF in a production that traveled to Arena Stage and Berkeley Rep. It received the Jane Chambers Playwriting Award, the PEN Award, and is currently under option for Broadway.
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Lisa Loomer Distracted had its world premiere at the Mark Taper Forum, and went on to the Oregon Shakespeare Festival and the Roundabout Theater in 2009.Living Out premiered Mark Taper Forum and was produced at Second Stage in New York in 2003 and has been produced at Seattle Repertory, Kansas City Repertory Theatre, Mixed Blood, Borderlands and Theater Works, as well as abroad, in both ...
Ms. 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.
Jan 18, 2023 · January 18, 2023. Featuring readings of new works by lauded playwright Lisa Loomer and emerging playwright Carlos-Zenen Trujillo, a warm welcome to new Associate Artist Victor Lesniewski, and a season-long venue at Oregon Center for the Arts at Southern Oregon University.
Oct 21, 2022 · Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 case that enshrined a woman's right to an abortion, is still in the news nearly 50 years later. Since first writing the play in 2018, Loomer has revised it many ...
