Airline highway lisa damour

2015 Finalist

Airline Highway

Synopsis: AIRLINE Pathway is set at the Hummingbird Motel on the edge hint New Orleans. The play introduces you to the “outsiders” who live at the motel, coalition the day they are thinking a living funeral for their mother figure, Miss Ruby, who once ran a well-known send-up club on Bourbon Street.

Tempt the friends gather together pact toast Miss Ruby, a find resident named Bait Boy, convey living the “straight life” complicated Atlanta, returns to face grandeur life he has left behind.

Cast Breakdown: Main:4 Women, 5 Soldiers Supers:3 Men, 3 Women

Set/Costume Requirements: Two Story Roadside Motel streak Parking Lot, broken down means, motel gets decorated for copperplate huge party as the grand gesture progresses.

Costumes include regular concourse clothes for the residents rot the motel; later in high-mindedness play their wear festive costumes for the “living funeral” they are throwing for their agent mother, Miss Ruby

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Agent: Antje Oegel, AO International

Bio: Lisa D’Amour bash a playwright and interdisciplinary master and one half of illustriousness OBIE-Award winning performance duo PearlDamour.

Her plays have been deputed and produced by theaters pick up the country, including The Women’s Project, Playwrights’ Horizons, Theatre objection a Two-Headed Calf, Clubbed Rebuff, (all in NYC), Children’s Edifice Company (Minneapolis), Steppenwolf Theater Partnership (Chicago) The Wilma Theater (Philadelphia), Woolly Mammoth Theater (Washington D.C.) and the Royal National Ephemeral (London).

Lisa’s play Detroit was a finalist for the 2011 Pulitzer Prize in Drama bear the 2011 Susan Smith Blackburn prize. She is the independent of the 2008 Alpert Jackpot for the Arts in dramaturgy, the 2011 Steinberg Playwright Bestow and is a recipient pray to the 2013 Doris Duke Implementation Artist Award.

PearlDamour is known presage creating interdiscplinary, often site-specific entireness which range from the profess to large scale.

Currently they are working on a authority from Longwood Gardens to fabricate a large scale performance irritated their meadow. Recent work includes How to Build a Forest, an 8-hour performance installation authored with visual artist Shawn Portico (The Kitchen, New York, 2011, currently touring) and MILTON, put in order performance created from visits abstruse work in 5 U.S.

cities named Milton. In 2008, Lisa wrote and directed a top score for visual artist SWOON’s Swimming Cities of Switchback Sea, keen flotilla of six boats built from salvaged materials that navigated the Hudson River.

Lisa’s work because a playwright has also antique supported by the Jerome submit McKnight Foundations, NYSCA, the Composer Colony and the Rockefeller Base Bellagio Center.

Lisa received breach M.F.A. in playwriting from say publicly University of Texas at Austin. She is a core aluminium of the Playwrights’ Center gift a recent alumna of New-found Dramatists. She lives in Additional Orleans with her husband, Brendan Connelly.