Lisa Rothe is a freelance theater director and acting/voice coach. She was nominated for SDC’s Joe A. Callaway Award for Direction for Hold These Truths by Jeanne Sakata, starring Joel De La Fuente, which has toured the country and won multiple awards. Recent: Belly of the Beast (nominated for a Drama League Awards and presented by TodayTix, New York Theatre Workshop & 3AD (Daniel Dae Kim’s production company); Steel Magnolias (The Guthrie Theatre); Fun Home and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Kansas City Repertory Theater); Amber Waves(Indiana Repertory Theatre); Irish Repertory Theatre, Cincinnati Playhouse, Theatreworks Silicon Valley, Two River Theater, People’s Light, Playmakers Repertory Theatre, among others. Future: Pericles (Next Chapter Podcasts); The Names We Gave Him by Ellen McLaughlin and Peter Foley; Hold These Truths (Heritage Theatre, Charlottesville, VA); Another Revolution (Gulf Shore Playhouse). Previously, Lisa was the Director of New Works at Kansas City Repertory Theatre, co-Artistic Director of The Actor’s Center (NYC), co-President of the League of Professional Theatre Women, a Drama League and Fox Fellow alum and is currently a Usual Suspect with New York Theatre Workshop, member of the National Theater Conference and Artistic Affiliate (and former Audrey Fellow) with New Georges. She was also the Director of Global Exchange at The Lark for over five years. www.lisarothe.com