Lisa Portes Director Productions Miss You Like Hell (upcoming) Quiara Alegría Hudes & Erin McKeown Olney Theatre Glass Menagerie Tennessee Williams California Shakespeare Theatre The Thanksgiving Play Larissa Fasthorse Cincinnati Playhouse Rightlynd* Ike Holter Victory Gardens I Come from Arizona* Carlos Murillo Childrens Theatre Company Breach* Antoinette Nwandu Victory Gardens Native Gardens Karen Zacarías Denver Center Disgraced Ayad Akhtar Cincinnati Playhouse This Is Modern Art* Idris Goodwin & Kevin Coval Steppenwolf Theatre Ghostwritten* Naomi Iizuka Goodman Theatre After 100 Years* Naomi Iizuka Guthrie Theatre Permanent Collection Thomas Gibbons Northlight Theatre Concerning Strange Devices from the Distant West Naomi Iizuka Timeline Theatre TRANSit* Darren Canady American Blues Theatre Grounded George Brandt American Blues Theater Elliot, A Soldier’s Fugue Quiara Alegría Hudes, Steppenwolf Theatre w/Teatro Vista The Piano Teacher Julia Cho Next Theatre Far Away Caryl Churchill Next Theatre In the Blood Suzan-Lori Parks Next Theatre Wilder* Erin Cressida Wilson, Jack Herrick and Mike Craver Playwrights Horizons Carthage* Naomi Iizuka Theater E, San Diego Cross Dressing in the Depression Erin Cressida Wilson Theater E and Sledgehammer Theatre *Indicates World Premiere or 1st Production Academic/Educational In the Heights Lin Manuel Miranda & Quiara Hudes The Theatre School, DePaul University The Last Days of Judas Iscariot Stephen Adly Guirgis The Theatre School, DePaul University Electricidad Luis Alfaro The Theatre School, DePaul University Night Runner* Ike Holter Chicago Playworks (TYA) Barrio Grrrl, The Musical Quiara Alegria Hudes & Bill Sherman Chicago Playworks (TYA) Cinderella Eats Rice and Beans: Karen Zacarías & Debbie Wicks La Puma Chicago Playworks (TYA) Workshops (selected) Wolf at the Door Marisela Treviño Orta LTC Caranval Tennis in Nablus Ismail Khalidi Goodman Theatre Ghostwritten Naomi Iizuka Sundance Theatre Lab
Associate Directorships The Who’s Tommy Director: Des McAnuff Broadway, London, Toronto Frankfurt, UK and Canadian Nat’l Tours Awards (selected) 2016 SDC Zelda Fichandler Award
Phone: 773-501-7261 * Email: [email protected]