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Lisa Schlesinger’s (United States) stage and radio plays include Wal-martyrs, Celestial Bodies, Twenty One Positions (with Naomi Wallace and Abed Abu Srour), Same Egg, Manny and Chicken, Rock Ends Ahead, The Bones of Danny Winston, Bow Echo, The Artist of Transparency, and Iphigenia at Zero. She is currently working on an opera, Harmonicus Mundi. She has received commissions from the Guthrie Theatre, the BBC, Portland Stage Company and Ensemble Studio Theatre and fellowships from the NEA, CEC International, the Iowa Arts Council, the Ford and Sloan Foundations. She is a recipient of the NEA/TCG Playwrights Residency Award and winner of the BBC International Playwriting Competition. Her most recent essay, “Postcards from Gaza and Other Unspeakable Geographies,” is forthcoming in Out of Silence, edited by Caridad Svich. She is professor of playwriting at Columbia College Chicago.

September 05, 2008
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