Lisa Lewis is a playwright, essayist and storyteller. Her new play Schooled recently had a reading hosted by the New Ohio Theatre, Artistic Director Robert Lyons, starring Tony nominee and Drama Desk Award winner Peter Friedman. Her essays, profiles and book reviews have appeared in The New York Times, ELLE Magazine, Kirkus Reviews, New York Press and Biography Magazine. Lisa’s essays have been written about by The New Yorker, Gawker, The Washington Post and her New York Times essay about e-readers inspired a Twitter meme #ereaderpickuplines. Her live storytelling performances have been recognized by NY-1 News, which called her “a rising voice in the world of literature, comedy and theater.”

A graduate of NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, Dramatic Writing Program, Lisa has worked as a reader and story analyst on such wide-ranging and award-winning screenplays as The Queen, The Road, Mammoth, The Men Who Stare at Goats, Awake, Francis Ford Coppola’s Tetro, The Young Victoria, The Blind Side, and Brooklyn’s Finest. In addition to six years performing script coverage, doctoring and development notes for New Line Cinema and as a long-time reader and analyst for Robert De Niro and Jane Rosenthal at Tribeca Productions, she has also read for The Weinstein Company, Hardy Justice, producer Ruth Pomerance, and many award-winning screen and television writers. Her profiles for Kirkus Reviews include Steve Martin, Dennis Lehane and Andy Rooney. She’s getting back to her bluegrass roots, playing the harmonica and mixing bourbon cocktails.

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