Lisa Mongillo

playwright & lyricist

Lisa is a queer lyricist, librettist, and playwright based in Brooklyn, by way of Chicago. She loves dark comedy, absurd tragedy, and quiet weirdness.

She is a member of the world-renowned BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theater Workshop and a contributing humor writer for Reductress. Her work has been produced Off-Broadway and seen on stages (and in basements) from NYC to Paris and beyond.

Her recent credits include: lyrics and book for The Radium Girls: A Jaw-Dropping New Musical (2022 NAMT Finalist, 2023 industry presentation directed by Tony winner Marissa Jaret Winokur); lyrics for A Never-Ending Line (Off-Broadway); lyrics and book for We Are The Benjamin Harrison High School Horse Girls (Out of the Box Theatrics New Works); lyrics and book for Forever Noon (Pendragon Theater artist residency); lyrics and book for Hospital Kids (Best Book at SoundBites Festival); and Party People (Samuel French Off-Off- Broadway Festival).

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featured projects

  • The Radium Girls: A Jaw-Dropping New Musical

    A horror-infused dark comedy inspired by the stories and spirits of the young women who worked on the factory line at the U.S. Radium Corporation in the early 20th century.

  • We Are The Benjamin Harrison High School Horse Girls

    In the suburban Indiana of 1993, a teenage recluse must reckon with her horse girl past in order to help a trio of horse girls meet a real horse.

  • Wyler Children’s Hospital

    When a devious young leukemia patient is told she’ll soon be discharged, she realizes she isn't ready to go be a "normal kid" yet, so she enacts a wild plan to extend her stay.

  • UGLY: case study of a wannabe hot person

    A biting comedy about one woman's desperate attempt to become hot, and the sad, silly, salacious fallout of her efforts.

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