D'Amour is an OBIE-award winning playwright and interdisciplinary artist. She writes plays for theaters, and collaborates with artists of different disciplines on work often presented in non-traditional sites. As a playwright, Lisa’s work has been produced by such theaters as New Georges, Clubbed Thumb, The Women’s Project and HERE Arts Center (NYC); Salvage Vanguard, Physical Plant and Refraction Arts (Austin); Infernal Bridegroom Productions (Houston); Crowded Fire Theater (San Francisco); Ten Thousand Things, the Red Eye Collaboration and Children’s Theater Company (Minneapolis). She has been commissioned to write plays by Playwrights’ Horizons, Children’s Theater Company, the Guthrie Theater and The Talking Band, and is currently working on a two-play commission for Steppenwolf Theater.
Playwright Lisa D’Amour’s Cherokee is currently in development at Steppenwolf.
Editor’s Note: Participants in a new play development process often learn as much as they can about the aesthetics and experience of their collaborators. In that spirit, below is an article by Lisa D’Amour originally published on HowlRound, The Journal of the American Voices New Play Institute at Arena Stage.
Read More» Posted by Lisa D'Amour | 1 responsesPlaywright Lisa D’Amour’s Cherokee is currently in development at Steppenwolf.
Q. Brief description of the project (as you envision it now).
A. Cherokee is about two couples from Houston who go on a camping vacation at a point in their lives when they are all yearning for a big change.
Can you identify the first spark of the idea for this play? Was there a moment, an event, an image, a practical challenge, or a question that got your imagination working?
It was actually an image from my play Detroit – the urge that Sharon and Mary have to go camping. I always wished that they would have made it! Also, I grew up camping in Cherokee, North Carolina quite a bit (with the large extended family mentioned above) and have so many fond memories.
What aspect of the project excites you the most?
That the characters might actually slough off the old and become more free.
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