1. LISA BIGGS
SAG – AFTRA ‐ AEA
Height: 5’8”
Weight: 140
Hair & Eye Color: Brown
Contact: biggslis@msu.edu
SELECTED THEATRE CREDITS
Original Performance Work (Writer and Performer)
Where Spirit Rides; Or,
The Long Way Home
Abby Kelly/Uncle
Sammie/Frederick
Douglass
National Black Theatre Festival
Shadowbox Theatre, New Orleans Fringe
Links Hall; Holly Hughes, Curator
Performance Studies, Northwestern University
2013
2011
2009
2008
Memory is a Body of
Water
(with Tanisha Christie)
Kim/Various National Black Theatre Festival
Goucher College
NY International Fringe Festival
NY Hip Hop Theatre Fest
Amherst College
2004
2004
2003
2003
2003
Silence The Perpetrator Baltimore Theatre Project 2002
Vigilante. Artist. Kim/Jamal/Fentress Amherst College
Cultural Odyssey
Joe’s Movement Emporium
2014
2002
2002
Actor
Jomama Jones: Radiate Backup Singer Victory Gardens Daniel Alexander Jones, Dir. 2012
Color Me Dark (workshop) Nellie Lee The Kennedy Center Ricardo Kahn, Dir. 2003
Big Love Olympia Woolly Mammoth Howard Shalwitz, Dir. 2002
Bee‐Luther‐Hatchee Shelita Burns African Continuum Jennifer Nelson, Dir. 2001
The Southwest Project Ensemble Arena Stage Rebecca Rice, Dir. 2001
Butterfly Belongings
Oceans
Ensemble
Ensemble
Living Stage Theatre
Living Stage Theatre
Rebecca Rice, Dir.
Rebecca Rice, Dir.
2000
1999
*The Trial of One Short‐Sighted
Black Woman…
Victoria ETA Creative Arts Paul Carter Harrison, Dir. 1998
Eye Plus One Ensemble Lookingglass Theatre Joy Gregory, Dir. 1997
*Home Pattie Mae City Lit/Chicago Theatre Phillip Van Lear, Dir. 1996
*Faith & The Good Thing Swamp Woman Chicago Theatre Co. Doug Mann, Dir. 1995
*Indicates Joseph Jefferson and Black Theatre Alliance award winner or nominee.
FILM
Walk With Me: The Movie Principal Ayaa Arts & Media Tanisha Christie & Ellie Walton,
Dir./Prod.
2012
Flag/Body Principal Ayaa Arts & Media Tanisha Christie & Ellie Walton,
Dir./Prod.
2006
TRAINING
Ph.D., Performance Studies, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL (2013)
M.A., Playwriting and Performance Studies, New York University Gallatin School, New York, NY (2007)
SITI Company Summer Intensive (2006)
Teaching Artist, The Living Stage Theatre Company, Washington, DC (1999‐2001)
B.A., Theatre and Dance, Amherst College, Amherst, MA (1993)
SPECIAL SKILLS
Improvisation. Alto singing voice. West African and Caribbean Dance. Playwriting.
Commercial, Industrial and Voice‐Over Credits By Request