Blog Posts - Lisa Dring

Joining East West Players' Writing Group

6/19/2019

EAST WEST PLAYERS ANNOUNCES ITS 2019-2020 PLAYWRIGHTS GROUP

East West Players (EWP), the nation’s longest-running professional theatre of color in the country and the largest producing organization of Asian American artistic work, is pleased to announce the second cohort of its Playwrights Group, providing space and artistic support over the course of a year for six writers of color. The 2019 program is led by playwright Alice Tuan and composed of writers from diverse backgrounds as part of EWP’s 54th Anniversary Season.
The members of the 2019 inaugural playwrights group are Inda Craig-Galván, Lisa Dring, Eric Loo, Anna Moench, Lina Patel, and Christopher Peña.

https://www.broadwayworld.com/los-angeles/article/East-West-Players-Announces-Its-2019-2020-Playwrights-Group-20190618

The Wicked One reading with Circle X!

6/12/2019

Interview with Hannah Wolf

6/7/2019

I am delighted to share this interview I did with Hannah about directing:

https://theatredirectors.tumblr.com/post/185428957476/lisa-sanaye-dring

Directing at Cal Rep in the fall

6/5/2019

I am delighted to be joining Cal State Long Beach as a director in the fall!

http://web.csulb.edu/colleges/cota/theatre/on-stage-now/

Directors Lab West

6/2/2019

This was deeply fun. Thank you, Directors Lab West for having me!

Circle X Theatre Co.

5/21/2019

I have joined Circle X Theatre Co. as Associate Artistic Director. I will be supporting the vision of my friend and mentor Jen Kays as she leads. When I started at this organization as an intern ten years ago, I had no idea how profoundly this company and these people would shape me as an artist, a human, and a lover of plays. I am delighted to be working with them to champion impossible new theatre.

Rogue Lab

5/15/2019

I am delighted to have my work presented as a part of Rogue Lab's Reading Series. I co-founded this Lab with Chelsea Sutton. Rogue Artists has hosted 18 writers, designers and directors over the last 9 months in creating brand new hyper-theatrical work for the stage. Rebecca Wear is directing and Anthony Storniolo has created new composition for my play, entitled A Season. You are invited to come see what we've cooked up.

For more info:
https://www.rogueartists.org/rogue-lab

FEMPIRE TAKES ON EDINBURGH!

5/8/2019

We are doing it, ladies and germs! We are going to Scotland! I am directing Cleo, Theo & Wu and MESS, to fantastic plays by Kirsten Vangsness.

https://www.theatreofnote.com/fempire-at-edinburgh/?et_fb=1&PageSpeed=off

AT&Teeeeeee

4/24/2019

Reading with Artists at Play

4/14/2019

I am overjoyed to be performing in a reading of in THIS IS NOT A TRUE STORY this Thursday 4/12. Join Artists at Play at USC Pacific Asia Museum in Pasadena for this FREE performance.

Written by Preston Choi and directed by Reena Dutt, THIS IS NOT A TRUE STORY unravels the history of Orientalist art, theatre, and the danger of fiction becoming reality. When the heroine of Madame Butterfly (Lisa Sanaye Dring as CIOCIO) completes her tragic suicide, she wakes up trapped in a never-ending loop of her story. Then Miss Saigon (VyVy Nguyen as KIM) is born, thrusting another heroine into the deadly cycle, until a mysterious office woman (Jennifer Soo as KUMIKO/TAKAKO) throws the world out of balance. (Also featuring Rob Nagle.)