@import "http://www.calvin.edu/weblogs?css=militerarymap/weblog_css"; Reardon, Lisa January 22, 1962 Place of Birth: Milan, MI Place of Principal Residence: Southwestern Michigan Biography
Education: Bachelors Degree in English and Theater from the University of Michigan, 1989; Yale School of Drama, Masters Degree in Playwriting.
Family Life: Lisa lives with Godfrey, her 17 year old cat.
Early writing: She wrote under the name of Lisa Wing from 1986 until 1991. While in graduate school, her play, Blush at Nothing, was chosen as the inaugural production of the Purple Rose Theater in Chelsea, Michigan. Wrote several plays in New York City, but quit after a few years.
Career writing: Stumbled into novel writing and taught novel writing and short fiction at New Yorks Gotham Writers Workshop. Also worked for Adolescent Psychiatric Division of St. Lukes-Roosevelt Hospital, where she ran a creative writing workshop for teens aged twelve to seventeen. Selected Works
Plays:
- The Sweet Trade
Gloria
Blush at Nothing
Cost of Living
Wendy and Danny Dove
Novels: - The Mercy Killers Blameless Billy Dead
Awards - First Place, La Plume des Femmes Playwriting Competition, Jacksonville FL, 1990
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