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Lisa Wagner Erickson is a Colorado-based playwright, theatre artist -and occasional signer and performance artist. Her varied experience includes singing at Red Rocks, performing sketch comedy at Boulder Theater and plays that have been developed and produced across the United States.
Her plays have been developed and presented by Primary Stages, Stickball Productions, Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival, No Strings Theatre Company, And Toto too, Edge Theatre, Theater 29, and BETC, among others. Her work has been published in Literature Today and Mini Plays Review.
A True West Award winner, Lisa has also been a finalist for the Gary Garrison Award for Ten-Minute Plays, a regional finalist for the KCACTF 10-Minute Play Award, a PlayPenn semi-finalist, and a semi-finalist for Landing Theatre’s New American Voices. She is the founder of Cypherbird Projects, the former owner and creative director of Theater 29, and a member of the Dramatists Guild. Lisa is an instructor at the Community College of Denver, where she has taught courses in playwriting and theater appreciation and is a playwriting instructor for Lighthouse Writers Workshop youth programs. She holds an MFA in Writing for Stage and Screen from Lesley University.
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in the press
“Don’t miss the curtain riser, “Step On Me,” a hilarious short play by Lisa Wagner Erickson that toys with one woman’s obsession with her bathroom scale”
“And the winner is - THE MRS. WHEATLAND PAGEANT! What do you do if you’re about to turn 30, you are desperate to have a baby and your husband is suddenly wearing an apron and pumps? You host A beauty pageant, of course!”
“Theater 29 and the Lulubird Project have set up a novel theatrical experience for these stay-at-home, virus-plagued times”
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lwericksonplaywright@gmail.com
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