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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 ...
Jan 6, 2017 · That’s where Lisa Loomer plunges in with the historically sweeping “Roe,” the rare play that takes this inflammatory American issue head-on.
Jan 31, 2023 · “Roe” was born in 2015, 42 years after its namesake, when playwright Lisa Loomer was prompted to write a script for a project about a critical moment in American history. Since then, Loomer has adapted the script in rhythm with the ever-changing landscape surrounding reproduction rights in America.
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Aug 24, 2016 · Aug. 24, 2016. ASHLAND, Ore. — Lisa Loomer has written plays about how women’s bodies are tortured in the name of beauty and about the relationship between white mothers and their Latina nannies...
Nov 10, 2023 · When “Roe,” the play, premiered at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in 2016, its playwright, Lisa Loomer, knew it would need to be updated. Roe v. Wade, the landmark Supreme Court case for ...
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Lisa Loomer. In two season at OSF: Playwright, Roe (2017) Distracted (2007) . Other plays: Living Out; The Waiting Room; Homefree; Café Vida; Expecting Isabel; Two Things You Don’t Talk about at Dinner; Birds; Bocón!; Maria!
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Nov 14, 2023 · When “Roe,” the play, premiered at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in 2016, its playwright, Lisa Loomer, knew it would need to be updated. Roe v. Wade, the landmark Supreme Court case for which the play is named and based, was the law of the land, but the abortion debate in the U.S. was far from settled.
