Lisa Ramirez

LISA RAMIREZ (Actor/Playwright) will be performing the part of Martha in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf in the upcoming production in May/June at Oakland Theater Project. Recent productions include, Cashed Out at SF Playhouse, Nan and the Lower Body at TheatreWorks Silicon Valley, The Crucible at Oakland Theater Project, Water by the Spoonful at the SF Playhouse, Addressless at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater and the drive-in theater production of TS Eliot's, THE WASTE LAND at Oakland Theater Project. Seen as Wilma in THE CONVENT by Jessie Dickey at Rising Phoenix- Rattlestick Theater, MJ's Mom in GOOD GRIEF at the Vineyard Theatre in NYC. Other roles include, The Angel in ANGELS IN AMERICA at Berkeley Rep, Blanche Dubois in A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE at the Oakland Theater Project. Lisa has performed extensively at theaters on both the East and West Coast such as the Cherry Lane Theatre, Signature Theatre, Atlantic Theatre, Working Theater, The Foundry, Oakland Theater Project, Magic Theatre, Berkeley Rep amongst others. Writing credits include, EXIT CUCKOO (nanny in motherland) was first presented Off Broadway by the Working Theater (Colman Domingo- director) and subsequently toured in various theaters throughout the U.S. and Ireland; ART OF MEMORY, a dance theatre piece, commissioned by Company SoGoNo and presented at the Ontological-Hysteric Theater and the 3-Legged Dog in New York (Tanya Calamoneri- director) INVISIBLE WOMEN-RISE, Foundry Theatre & Domestic Workers United; TO THE BONE, originally a Working Theater commission, was a finalist for the 2012 NPN Smith Prize, the O'Neill National Playwrights Conference and the Ellen Stewart Award; Contributing playwright for IN MOTHER WORDS, presented at the Geffen Playhouse and various regional theatres (Lisa Peterson- director); In 2012/13 Lisa was part of the MENTOR PROJECT at the Cherry Lane Theatre where she wrote Pas de Deux (lost my shoe), (Bryan Davidson Blue- director); In September 2015, the Cherry Lane Theatre presented the world premiere of TO THE BONE (Lisa Peterson- director). Recent work includes a stage adaptation of Maxim Gorky's THE LOWER DEPTHS titled DOWN HERE BELOW; commissioned and produced by the Oakland Theater Project in 2019, sAiNt JoAn (burnburnburn) at Okalnd Theater Project, Book of Sand (a fairytale) at Oakland Theater Project, ALL FALL DOWN at The Center Theater Groups Writers Workshop. Lisa is also working on a new semi- autobiographical TV Pilot and screenplays of her plays, TO THE BONE & IN THE MOUNTAINS.