The Radium Girls

A dark historical comedy inspired by the stories of the women who worked on the line at radium watch dial factories in the 1920s.

Bookwriter & Lyricist

  • Produced by High Octave Productions, world premiere to be announced

  • Industry Reading @ The Duke on 42nd Street, dir. Marissa Jarett Winokur

  • Selected for the Choreography Lab at The Phoenix Theater Company

  • Developmental production by Western Connecticut State University

  • Winner of 5 awards at the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival

  • Top 20, NAMT Festival of New Musicals

  • Semi-Finalist, Eugene O’Neill National Musical Theater Conference

  • Showcased in Playbill’s Songwriter Series

We Are the Benjamin Harrison High School Horse Girls

A dry, absurd comedy set in the suburban Indiana of 1993, where a teenage recluse must embrace her horse girl past in order to help a group of fellow horse girls finally meet a real horse.

Bookwriter & Lyricist

  • Reimagined as a screenplay, currently repped at WME

  • Two developmental readings by Out of the Box Theatrics

  • Featured in the In The Works series at The Duplex

This project is part of Lisa’s larger body of work with Joanna Burns:

  • Featured by Ring of Keys at Joe’s Pub

  • Featured in the BMI Workshop Showcase at the Deane Little Theater

  • Developed music videos and content as the duo Doll Camp

Sick

A darkly whimsical comedy set at “the worst children’s hospital in greater Los Angeles,” when a stubborn young patient decides she’s not ready to be discharged and enacts a wild plan to stay one more night as a “sick kid.”

Bookwriter & Lyricist

Inspired by our short piece, Hospital Kids:

  • Best Book, Soundbites Festival

  • Finalist, City Theater National Short Playwriting Award

  • Offered run, Players Theater Developmental Program

Forever Noon

An unhinged parody of the entire Twilight Saga that dismantles the series' melodrama, Mormon-coded subtext, and undying afterlife with love and camp. 

Bookwriter & Lyricist

  • Ongoing artist retreat series, Pendragon Theater

  • Developmental reading, Littlefield

  • Upcoming staged readings, Laurie Beechman Theater

  • Songs performed in concert at Caveat and Threes Brewing

Party People

In the not-so-distant future, a couple attend a special party in Brooklyn on the night before a pivotal event in their lives.

Playwright

A Never-Ending Line

A song cycle written in collaboration with nine female lyricists and composer Jaime Lozano.

Lyricist

  • Off-Broadway run, Players Theaer

  • Cast album, Broadway Records

  • Concert, The Metropolitan Room

  • Concert, Comédie Nation in Paris

  • Spanish-language performance in Monterrey, Mexico

and more…