Lisa Rothe

Lisa Rothe is a freelance theater director, coach and educator. She was nominated for SDC's Joe A. Callaway Award for Direction for Hold These Truths by Jeanne Sakata (and produced by Epic Theatre Ensemble), starring Joel De La Fuente (also nominated for a Drama Desk award for Best Solo Performance). The show has toured the country and won three Theatre Bay Area Awards for Outstanding Direction, Performer and Production. Recent directing work includes: Belly of the Beast by Margaret Vandenburg (presented by 3AD, TodayTix & New York Theatre Workshop); Steel Magnolias (The Guthrie Theatre); Fun Home and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Kansas City Repertory Theater); Pericles (adaptation by Ellen McLaughlin) for Next Chapter Podcasts; The Names We Gave Him by Ellen McLaughlin and Peter Foley; Amber Waves (Indiana Repertory Theatre); and productions at Irish Repertory Theatre, Cincinnati Playhouse, Theatreworks Silicon Valley (nominated for 8 Bay Area Critics Circle Awards), Two River Theater, People’s Light and Playmakers Repertory Theatre, among others.

Previously, Lisa was the Director of New Works at Kansas City Repertory Theatre, co-Artistic Director of The Actor's Center in NYC and co-President of the League of Professional Theatre Women. She is currently a Usual Suspect with New York Theatre Workshop, a member of the National Theater Conference, an Artistic Affiliate and former Audrey Fellow with New Georges, and sits on the artistic advisory boards for Epic Theatre Ensemble, Detroit Public Theater, the Drama League, Houses on the Moon Theatre Company and is a member of the Ambassadors Council for the National New Play Network (NNPN). She is also a former Fox Fellow, an alum of the Drama League New Director’s/New Works program, and was the Director of Global Exchange at The Lark for over five years. www.lisarothe.com

Lisa has workshopped, developed and directed over one hundred new plays and musicals, working with multiple award winning writers. In New York, she has developed and presented work at HERE, NYTW, New Georges, The Lark, The Culture Project, The Foundry, Ensemble Studio Theater, The 52nd Street Project, Naked Angels, Epic Theater Ensemble, Summer Play Festival, among others. With composer Kim Sherman, librettist Margaret Vandenburg, and music director Kimberly Grigsby, Lisa has been developing a new music theatre piece (Ada) about Ada Byron. She has also taught and directed at many theatre programs around the country including NYU’s Graduate Acting Program, Yale School of Drama, The Juilliard School, Chautauqua Conservatory, the Einhorn School of Performing Arts (ESPA) at Primary Stages and many others. Lisa received her MFA from NYU's Graduate Acting Program and was invited by teacher and mentor Zelda Fichandler to be a part of the inaugural year of the Director’s Lab. See www.lisarothe.com for more info.