Larissa Lury

Larissa Lury is a director, an associate professor at New Mexico State University, a deviser and a former acrobat. She loves artwork and experiences that open her to new ways of looking at the world around her, and strives to create those kinds of experiences for others. She aspires to be a part of a community of theatre-makers, cultivating practices, processes and structures for our field that are as innovative, equitable, inspiring, productively malleable, supportive and humane as an industry built on creativity warrants. She has directed and workshopped plays for companies including Cherry Lane, The Playwrights’ Center, Urbanite, Dorset Theatre Festival, Portland Center Stage, Southern Rep, InterAct, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Clubbed Thumb, Ma-Yi, New Jersey Rep, Keen Company’s Keen Teens, McCarter Theatre’s Youth Ink!, Curious Theatre Company, ASTC, and Passage Theatre. This year, she was granted a Next Stage Residency with The Drama League to develop an EST/Sloan commission with playwright L M Feldman, about thirteen women pilots who underwent testing to become astronauts in the earliest years of the space program. She was a National Directing Fellow, an LMCC Process Space Resident, a New Georges Audrey Resident, and a Resident Director at Ensemble Studio Theatre. She is a member of the Lincoln Center Theater Directors Lab, and a New Georges Affiliate Artist. She received a BS from Northwestern University and an MFA from UC San Diego.