Lisa Langford is a Cleveland-based playwright and actor. She received her BA in History from Harvard University and her MFA in playwriting from Cleveland State University. Her play Rastus and Hattie was a 2019 Joyce Award winner (w/ Cleveland Public Theatre) and a 2019 Eugene O’Neill Theater Center National Playwrights Conference finalist. A recipient of the Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award, Lisa is a member of the Dramatist Guild.
Lisa Langford is a Cleveland-based playwright and actor. She is a member of Dobama Theatre’s Playwrights Gym. She received her B.A. in History from Harvard University and her M.F.A. in playwriting from Cleveland State University. Her play Rastus and Hattie was a 2019 Joyce Award winner (w/ Cleveland Public Theatre); a 2019 Eugene O’Neill Theater Center National Playwrights Conference finalist; and a The Kilroy’s List honorable mention. After productions at Cleveland Public Theatre and 16th Street Theatre in Chicago, the play will be published by New Stage Press.Lisa’s other plays include How Blood Go, which was an August Wilson New Play Initiative reading series selection at Chicago’s Congo Square Theatre and excerpted in a reading at Global Black Voices at the Roundhouse Theatre in London UK; The Art of Longing, a Leslie Scalapino Award finalist for Innovative Women Playwrights; and two short plays, The Bomb, published in the anthology Black Lives/Black Words, and Revolt. Ing, which was part of the I Am…Festival at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago. A recipient of the Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award, Lisa is a member of the Dramatist Guild and Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc.
