Lisa Konoplisky
Playwriting
Madison, WI
Lisa Konoplisky’s plays have appeared at Lyceum Theatre (NY), Blue Box World (NY), Camanea Theater (Chicago), Stockyards Theatre (Chicago), Speaking Ring Theater (Chicago), Theatre Limina (Minneapolis), That Uppity Theatre Company (St. Louis), and Icarus Falling (Lansing). She was a guest artist at the University of Wyoming School of Theatre and Dance, where her play, American Bowl, will receive a 2022 reading. She was an alternate for Elsewhere Studios Artist Residency and was recently offered a Jentel Artist Residency in Banner, Wyoming and was a contributing playwright at the Sewanee Writer’s Conference (2021) Her plays have been chosen for the Last Frontier Playlab in Valdez, AK for nine years (2013-2021). She was a resident playwright at the Annex Theatre Hothouse Project (Seattle), a finalist for Chicago Dramatists’ Residency Program, an alternate selection for the Inge Theatre Festival for her play Closer and a semi-finalist for the Ashland New Play Festival for her play Dog Park. Her play American Bowl is in development with the Blank Theatre in Los Angeles. She was a resident and scholar recipient at Hedgebrook’s Vortext program. A monologue from her novel-in-progress, Original Sin, appears in Monologues by Women for Women (Heinemann, 2005). Her full-length play, Dog Park, will be produced in 2023 at Cyrano’s Theatre in Anchorage, AK.
Redemption Game (excerpt)
“Now most women have no idea what their parts are, don’t know the difference between a
Stradivarius, a clitoris or a uterus. Yeah, they all have that “us” sound at the end so we
suspect a connection. But it’s little more than a vague hunch. In this muddle of girly
membranes and whatnots, where exactly is joy located? Truth is, joy moves around a lot.
An itinerant peddler of bits and bobs, a distracted dreamer. There’s no real longitude
or latitude to be had at any given moment.”