1. Lisa Dwan is best known for her work in theatre, performing in Samuel Beckett adaptations among other works.
20 Facts About Lisa Dwan
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Lisa Dwan began her career in the Fox Kids series Mystic Knights of Tir Na Nog.
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Lisa Dwan appeared in the RTE soap opera Fair City and the ITV drama Rock Rivals.
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Lisa Dwan was chosen to dance with Rudolf Nureyev in the Ballet San Jose's production of "Coppelia" in Dublin when she was 12 years old.
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Lisa Dwan left school at 14 after winning a scholarship to attend the Dorothy Stevens School of Ballet in Leeds, and danced with the London Lewis Ballet Company.
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Lisa Dwan played the role of Orla in eight episodes of RTE's "The Big Bow Wow" in 2004, the role of Zoe Burke in 28 episodes of the Irish soap opera Fair City from 2006 to 2007, and the role of Angel Islington on Rock Rivals.
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Lisa Dwan is most well known internationally for her performances and adaptations of Samuel Beckett's works; Kate Kellaway has called her an "Irish actor and Beckett interpreter of the first rank".
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Lisa Dwan performed in Beckett's Not I in London's Battersea Arts Centre in 2005, and was interviewed with Billie Whitelaw, whom Beckett called the "perfect actress", as part of the Beckett celebrations on BBC Radio 3.
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Lisa Dwan performed the piece again in July 2009 at the Southbank Centre in London in a time of nine minutes and fifty seconds, and again at the International Beckett Festival in 2012.
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Lisa Dwan replicated the feat at Reading University the next year.
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In October 2016, Lisa Dwan adapted and starred in No's Knife, a one-woman production adapted from Beckett's Stories and Texts for Nothing at London's Old Vic and Abbey Theatre Dublin.
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Lisa Dwan is the first woman to perform Beckett's Stories and Texts for Nothing.
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In 2017, Lisa Dwan starred in Harold Pinter's "The Lover" and "The Collection" at the Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington, DC, for which she won Shakespeare Theatre Company's Emery Battis Award for Acting Excellence.
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In 2016, Lisa Dwan starred in Marina Carr's stage adaptation of Anna Karenina for the Abbey Theatre in Dublin.
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In 2021, Lisa Dwan played Tori Matthews opposite James Nesbitt in Bloodlands, an acclaimed four-part BBC drama.
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Lisa Dwan regularly writes, lectures, and teaches on theatre, gender, and Beckett.
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Lisa Dwan writes about Beckett and the arts, including in The Guardian.
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Lisa Dwan has lectured at the Ecole Normale Superieure, University of Reading and the University of Oxford, and recently completed a residency at Princeton University's Lewis Center for the Arts, where she taught a class on adapting Beckett's prose work.
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Lisa Dwan was a resident fellow at the School of Art and Ballet at New York University from 2017 to 2018.
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Lisa Dwan was an artist in residence at MIT from 2018 until 2021.