1. Lisa Loomer is best known for her play The Waiting Room, in which three women from different time periods meet in a modern doctor's waiting room, each suffering from the effects of their various societies' cosmetic body modification practices.
15 Facts About Lisa Loomer
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Lisa Loomer co-wrote the screenplay for the film Girl, Interrupted.
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Lisa Loomer was born in New York and moved to Mexico with her family in her late teens.
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Lisa Loomer studied theatre at Brandeis University and New York University's Tisch School of the Arts.
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Lisa Loomer began her career as an actress and comedienne.
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Lisa Loomer's first work for theater was A Crowd of Two at the American Place Theatre.
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Lisa Loomer began writing plays at the Intar Playwrights Lab, under the direction of Maria Irene Fornes.
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Lisa Loomer is an alumna of New Dramatists and the recipient of two grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and a grant from the New York Foundation for the Arts.
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Lisa Loomer has received an Imagen Award for positive portrayals of Latinos in all media.
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Lisa Loomer's plays have been selected for the Otis Guernsey Jr.
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Lisa Loomer's works have been published by Dramatists Play Service, TCG, Dramatic Publishing, and Arte Publico Press.
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Lisa Loomer writes for film and television, both comedy and drama.
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Lisa Loomer's films include Girl, Interrupted, and Nappily Ever After for Netflix.
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Lisa Loomer has written TV pilots for HBO, CBS, Fox, and Showtime.
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Lisa Loomer adapted the play Real Women Have Curves into a stage musical of the same name that premiered in 2023.