Lisa Biggs

Lisa Biggs is a playwright, actor, and performance studies scholar who is now based in Rhode Island. A former member of the Living Stage Theatre Company, she has developed and toured her original work to venues across the country, including Cultural Odyssey, DC Arts Center, Links Hall, Amherst College, and many more. As an actor, Lisa has appeared in productions at the Kennedy Center, Arena Stage, Lookingglass Theatre, Woolly Mammoth, City Lit, the African Continuum Theatre, and the National Black Theatre Festival. Her most recent play, After/Life, premiered in Detroit in 2017 with the support of a Knight Foundation Detroit Challenge Grant. Lisa earned a PhD in Performance Studies at Northwestern University in 2013. Her forthcoming book, The Healing Stage: Black Women, Incarceration, and the Art of Transformation, will be published by the Ohio State University Press in late 2022. Lisa currently serves as the John Atwater and Diana Nelson Assistant Professor of the Arts and Africana Studies at Brown University, where she offers classes in Black theatre and performance studies.