Rover
Dramawerks
Lisa
Devine
| Associate Artistic Director |
 Lisa
Devine is proud to call Rover her artistic home as a resident director, a
member of the artistic committee and a member of the board of directors. She holds
an MFA in Directing New Works from the University of Oklahoma. Some highlights
of her professional theater career include world premieres of several new scripts;
working with Tony Award winner John Cullum; modernizing a musical in conjunction
with the Leonard Bernstein Estate; having a show run for 6 months in Chicago;
and hosting playwrights Steven Dietz and Stephen Massicotte when Rover produced
their respective plays. Some of the shows that she is the proudest of are the
ones that she has directed for Rover are Private Eyes, An Infinite Ache, Mary's
Wedding and Veronica's Room. As an educator she has coached actors at the college/university
level at some of the country's top acting conservatories, including DePaul University,
Rutgers University and University of the Arts. She teaches across three academic
disciplines: Theater, Communication, and Film. In 2001, the world-premiere production
of Cheating Death received 22 awards, including Judge's Choice and Directing at
the national play competition KC/ACTF. In 2006, Lisa was nominated for Leading
Educator of Higher Education in Philadelphia, PA. Her research areas include the
Holocaust, Theater of the Oppressed, and Censorship in the Arts. She is currently
on faculty at Collin College Theater Department and is the coordinator for Rover
Adult Education. Lisa also sits on the Artistic Advisory Board for the Off-Broadway
company Theater East. Next summer, after she directs Rover's production of Days
of Wine and Roses, she will travel to NYC to direct Theater East's New York premiere
of Tim Blake Nelson's Eye of God.
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