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lisathum

Ensemble Member Since: 2001

Mad Horse Productions:
Actress:
Baby Food, That Other Person, Cloudhoppers, Hedda: A Re-Vision, The Pillowman, A Day In The Death of Joe Egg, Bug, Baby With The Bathwater
, Boston Marriage, Drunks, What Happened Was, Cloud 9, Wonder Of The World, The Bacchae, Suburban Motel (Problem Child, Risk Everything), The Laramie Project, Three Viewings, The Free Company Presents, The Ugly Man, A Streetcar Named Desire

Director:
Dead Man's Cell Phone, The Clean House, Suburban Motel (Featuring Loretta)

Graphic Designer:
Dead Man's Cell Phone, The Dresser, The History Boys, The Clean House, The Children's Hour, Hedda: A Re-Vision, Of Mice and Men, Long Day's Journey Into Night, Joe Egg, Bug, Baby with the Bathwater, Boston Marriage, Drunks, What Happened Was, Cloud 9, Wonder of the World, The Bacchae, Mercy Seat, Suburban Motel, 12 Angry Men, The Free Company Presents, Repossession, What The Butler Saw, Off The Map, A Streetcar Named Desire, Reposession, Three Sisters, Road To Nirvana

An ensemble member since 2001, Lisa has worked as an actress, director and designer in Southern Maine, San Francisco and her native Chicago. She also has the distinct pleasure of being the graphic designer for Mad Horse. Lisa appeared in The Theatre Project's Blithe Spirit, City Theater's Fuddy Meers, The Stone Pinhead Ensemble's Cabarnet and Cult, and Wide Open Mind's Naked in Portland. She also appeared as Bottom in The Fenix Theater Company's production of A Midsummer Night's Dream. Lisa playes Lucy Shuttleworth on the web series "Willard Beach. The Real Story."

Lisa is the former Artistic Director of Artworx International Ensemble in Chicago, where she also performed. She worked alongside Kevin Scott as an actress and director in producing several of his original plays with A Certain Hipness Productions. She was a company member of The Mint Street Theatre in San Francisco.

Lisa studied theater at the Chicago's Academy of Performing Arts, Piven Theater Workshop, Second City, DePaul University, UC Berkeley and with The Rob Reece Actors Workshop in San Francisco.


 


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Production History

1986-1987
The Lover
Birdbath
God
The Actor’s Nightmare
Vanishing Points

1987-1988
You Can’t Get There From Here
The Indian Wants The Bronx Line
Coyote Ugly
Brecht On Brecht
Snow Leopards

1988-1989
The Crackwalker
Praying Mantis
Bigfoot Stole My Wife
El Grande De Coca Cola
The Homecoming

1989-1990
Squats
Working
Laughing Wild
When You Comin’ Back Red Rider?
Morocco

1990-1991
A View From The Bridge
Tent Meeting
Les Liaisons Dangereuses
Pinter 2
Reckless

1991-1992
Dark River
Insignificance
In Perpetuity Throughout The Universe
A Life In The Theatre
The Passion of Dracula
An Unfinished Song

1992-1993
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
The Red Address
Betrayal
Better Days
The House of Blue Leaves
Claudia Shear: Blown Sideways Through Life

1993-1994
All My Sons
Kingfish
Down The Road
Goodnight Desdemona, (Good Morning Juliet)
Two
Greater Tuna

1994-1995
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Apocalyptic Butterflies
The Swan
Under The Skin
The Marriage of Bette and Boo

1995-1996
King Lear
Keely and Du
Keeping Tom Nice
The Women of My Father’s House
Scotland Road

1996-1997
A Funny Thing Happened On the Way to the Forum
Lonely Planet
Alabama Rain
Lloyd’s Prayer
The Scarlet Letter
Misery

1997-1998
Hamlet
Criminal Hearts
Frankie and Johnny in the Claire de Lune
Angels In America: Millennium Approaches

1998-1999
Angels In America: Perestroika
Road to Nirvana
Three Sisters
Repossession

1999-2000
A Streetcar Named Desire
Skylight
Off the Map
What the Butler Saw

2000-2001
bash: latterday plays
Three Viewings
The Ugly Man

2001-2002
The Free Company Presents
12 Angry Men
bash: latterday plays
Three Viewings

2002-2003
The Laramie Project
Suburban Motel (Problem Child, Criminal Genius, Featuring Loretta, Risk Everything)

2003-2004
The Mercy Seat
The Bacchae
Wonder of the World

2004-2005
Cloud 9
What Happened Was…
Drunks

2005-2006
Boston Marriage
Baby With The Bathwater
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

2006-2007
Bug
A Day In The Death Of Joe Egg
Long Day’s Journey Into Night

2007-2008
Of Mice and Men
The Pillowman
Hedda: A Re-Vision

2008-2009
The Children's Hour
Dark Night Series I (One For The Road, Mr. Happiness, Cloudhoppers)
The Clean House
Dark Night Series II (The Actor's Nightmare, Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All For You)
The History Boys
Dark Night Series III (Crazy Eights, Baby Food, That Other Person)

 

 

 

 

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