Lisa Rothe is a theater director and acting coach, specializing in new plays and updating the classics for our modern times.
Irish Repertory Theatre
The Sheen Center
HERE Arts Center
Epic Theatre Ensemble
Center for Contemporary Opera
Foundry Theatre/Queens Museum
Lark Play Development Center
Lark Play Development Center
Lark Play Development Center
New Georges
Ensemble Studio Theatre-First Light Fest
52nd Street Project – Playmaking 2011
Naked Angels
Playwrights Horizons
Belarus Free Theatre @ the Lark
Belarus Free Theatre @ the Lark
New York Theatre Workshop/Dartmouth
Epic Theatre Ensemble & CSC
Midtown International Theatre Festival
Studio Tisch @ NYU
Keen Company (Teen Keens)
NYMF – The Barrow Group Theatre
The Women’s Project
Epic Theatre Center
Summer Play Festival (SPF)
WNYC, “Spinning on Air”
Summer Play Festival (SPF)
Blue Heron Arts Center/59 e 59th
Creative Place Theatre
Culture Project
Manhattan Theatre Source
Drama League (New Directors/New Works)
Dixon Place
A-1 Collaborators
Studio Tisch, Shubert Theater
Studio Tisch, Paul Walker Theater
Kansas City Repertory Theatre
The Guthrie Theatre
The Cultch Historical Theatre - Vancouver
Kansas City Repertory Theatre
Barrington Stages
Indiana Repertory Theatre
Virginia Repertory Theatre
TheatreWorks/Silicon Valley
Cincinnati Playhouse
The Guthrie Theater
Playmakers Repertory
TheatreWorks
People's Light
Two River Theater
Penumbra Theatre (Minneapolis)
ACT (Seattle)
Chautauqua Theatre Company
People’s Light & Theatre Company
Playmakers Repertory Theatre
Chautauqua Theatre Company
Honolulu Theatre for Youth
Chautauqua Theatre
Playmakers Repertory Theatre
Vermont Stage Company
Indiana Repertory Theater
Synchronicity Theatre (GA)
Gallatin/Princeton
Chautauqua Theatre
Chautauqua Theatre
New Harmony Project
Seaside Shakespeare New Harmony Project
Voice & Vision Workshop
Milwaukee Shakespeare Company
Riverside Theatre (IA)
Barnard College
NYU Graduate Acting Program – 3rd year
Queens College
NYU Graduate Acting Program – 3rd year
The Juilliard School – 4th year
NYU Graduate Acting Program – 2nd year
Marymount Manhattan College
The Actors Center
NYU Graduate Acting Program – 3rd year
Yale School of Drama – 2nd year
Yale School of Drama – 1st year
Bard College
University of Illinois – Champaign-Urbana
NYU Graduate Acting Program – 2nd year
NYU Graduate Acting Program – 3rd year
NYU Graduate Acting Program – 3rd year
The Actors Center
Stella Adler Conservatory
Stella Adler Studios (NYU)
Stella Adler Studios (NYU)
Stella Adler Conservatory
The Actors Center
Stella Adler Conservatory
Stella Adler Studios (NYU)
Willamette University
Long Island University, CW Post
Cornell College
University of Evansville
University of Evansville
Long Island University, CW Post
Public School Repertory Company
(Produced by Roundabout & MCC)
NYU Musical Theatre Writing Program
NYU Musical Theatre Writing Program
NYU Musical Theatre Writing Program
NYU Musical Theatre Writing Program
NYU Musical Theatre Writing Program
Wild Abandon, written and performed by Leenya Rideout
Hold These Truths
Science Fair (Conceived and performed by Hai-Ting Chinn) Hold These Truths by Jeanne Sakata
Ada (opera) by Kim Sherman & Margaret Vandenburg
Just Like I Pictured It - ensemble devised with New Immigrant
Community Empowerment (NICE) in Jackson Heights
100 Planes by Lila Rose Kaplan (workshop)
Stepping by Gus Schulenburg (workshop)
Confederates by Suzanne Bradbeer (workshop)
Nectar by Katie Baldwin Eng (workshop)
Ada (workshop)
The Beginning
Bethany by Laura Marks (workshop)
The Courier by Kate Fodor (Benefit)
Thanksgiving Day by Nikolai Khalezin (workshop)
Charonville by Nikolai Khalezin (workshop)
Dawn’s Light by Jeanne Sakata (workshop)
Harrassment of Iris Malloy by Zak Berkman
(workshop with David Straithairn and Maggie Siff)
Couldn’t Say by Christopher Wall
Morgan Street by Jeremy Richards, Eugene Gwodz
and Anika Noni Rose (musical workshop)
Nowhere in America by Bathsheba Doran
Like Love by Lewis Flinn and Barry Kaplan
365 Days/365 Plays by Suzan-Lori Parks
365 Days/365 Plays by Suzan-Lori Parks
Split Wide Open by Christina Gorman
One Plum Square (radio opera) by Amy Kohn
Anatomy 1968 by Karen Hartman
Mermaid by Ellen McLaughlin
Closet Wide Ope’ by Shawn Sturnick
Jazz Desert by Rebecca Hart (musical)
Scatterhead by Elizabeth Anderson
Weeping Woman by Amy Wheeler
Ghetto Punch by Anthony Sparks
Resurrection by Anita Dashiell
Why We Have a Body by Claire Chaffee
Trifles by Susan Glaspell
Fun Home
Steel Magnolias
Hold These Truths
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Hold These Truths
Amber Waves by James Still
In My Chair by Eva DeVirgilis
Hold These Truths
Sooner/Later by Allyson Currin
Hold These Truths by Jeanne Sakata Detroit '67 by Dominique Morrisseau
Confederates by Suzanne Bradbeer The Harassment of Iris Malloy by Zak Berkman
Ropes by Barbara Colio (translated by Alex Beech)
The Peculiar Patriot by Liza Jessie Peterson Hold These Truths by Jeanne Sakata Dairyland by Heidi Armbruster Dear Elizabeth by Sarah Ruhl Hold These Truths Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Hold These Truths Hold These Truths Penelope by Ellen McLaughlin My Ohio (musical) by Dana Yeaton & Andy Mitton Interpreting William by James Still Looking For the Pony by Andrea Lepcio Penelope by Ellen McLaughlin Penelope Ah, Wilderness! Timberland by Austin Bunn (workshop) Twelfth Night Likeness by David Caudle (workshop) Like a Cow or an Elephant by Kara Corthron As You Like It Stop Kiss by Diana Son
DIRECTING
New York
Colony Collapse by Stefanie Zadravec
A Daughter and Some Sons by Lucy Thurber
The Cherry Orchard Tongue of a Bird by Ellen McLaughlin
End of the Road by Robert Kerr
Hot L Baltimore
A Month in the Country (adap by Brian Friel)
August Snow by Reynolds Price
The Seagull
Stop Kiss
The Seagull
Balm in Gilead
Machinal
Aloha, Say the Pretty Girls by Naomi Iizuka
Ah, Wilderness!
Top Girls
Gum by Karen Hartman
Top Girls
Fen
Between Daylight and Boonville
Dream of a Common Language
Agnes of God
Bus Stop
The Maids
Top Girls
Big Love
Cloud Nine
The Glory of Living
Julius Caesar
Ah, Wilderness!
Dancing at Lughnasa
Happy Donut/Mother (PSRC HS Students)
(Produced by Roundabout & MCC)
Flight 243 Love According to Luc
The Big One
Framing Eleanor
1 Plum Square
Educational
Regional
Related Experiences
Director of New Works @ Kansas City Repertory Theatre (February 2019 - present)
Co-Artistic Director of The Actor's Center, NYC (2017- present)
Director of Global Exchange (The Lark) - January 2010 - July 2015)
Programs upon Request
Camp Addis (Ethiopia Summer Camp)
Director & Teacher
WWO/AHope Orphange (National Theatre of Ethiopia)
Director & Teacher
Hannah and Martin (Epic Theatre Center)
Associate Producer
Motel Blues II (Apartment 929 Theatre Company)
Director & Producer
The Persians (National Actors Theatre)
Associate Director
Lysistrata (Chautauqua Theatre Company)
Co-Director for THAW
Lysistrata (BAM)
Co-Director for THAW
Theatres Against War (THAW)
Co-Founder
Helen by Ellen McLaughlin (The Public Theater)
Dir. by Tony Kushner
Playwright Assistant/Dramaturg
Tongue of a Bird by Ellen McLaughlin
(The Public Theater) - Dir. by Lisa Petersen
Playwright Assistant/Dramaturg
*Including extensive Teaching Experience (please contact for CV)
EDUCATION
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY MFA - Graduate Acting Program
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY Director's Lab
UNIVERSITY OF EVANSVILLE BFA Theatre (Acting)
HONORS & AWARDS
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Theatre Bay Area Awards - Outstanding Direction, Outstanding Production & Outstanding Performance for Joel de la Fuente (Hold These Truths @ TheatreWorks)
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Stage Directors & Choreographer’s Joe A. Callaway Award Nomination for Best Direction for Hold These Truths
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Drama Desk Nomination for Joel de la Fuente for Best Solo Performance of Hold These Truths
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EST/Sloan Foundation grant for direction/dramaturgy of new opera Ada, with composer Kim Sherman & librettist Margaret Vandenburg (2007/2008/2010/2013)
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Best Director Award for Midtown International Theater Festival for Couldn't Say
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Women’s Project Director’s Lab Leader (2006 – 2008)
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Women’s Project Director’s Lab (2004-2006)
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Past Company Member of Obie Award winning Epic Theatre Center
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Drama League Fellow – New Directors/New Works
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Fox Fellow Grant Recipient
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3 Year Full Tuition Scholarship – New York University Graduate Acting Program
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American College Theatre Festival Citation of Excellence for The Glory of Living
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American College Theatre Festival Citation of Excellence for Cloud 9
UNIONS & MEMBER AFFILIATIONS
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Stage Director's & Choreographer's Union (SDC)
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League of Professional Theatre Women (former Co-President)
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National Theatre Conference Member
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Artistic Advisory Council of Epic Theatre Ensemble
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Advisory Council of Houses on the Moon
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Advisory Board of Detroit Public Theatre
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Usual Suspect of New York Theatre Workshop
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Artistic Affiliate & Audrey Fellow with New George
Lisa Rothe
Director