September Write Away! 2023
We’ll once again zoomcast an improv/playwriting/cold-read mashup produced by Freestyle Rep and Synergy Theater. Three playwrights from both coasts will write short plays based on audience suggestions followed by often-brilliant, always-fun cold readings.
This time around I’m writing along with Kenn Adams and special guest, Alex Roe, artistic director of the Metropolitan Playhouse in NYC.
Audience members will engage in some fun creative writing exercises while the playwrights do their thing off-screen. It will also be broadcast on Facebook Live.
September 25th, 4:15pm PST, 7:15 EST
May Write Away! 2023
We’ll once again zoomcast an improv/playwriting/cold-read mashup produced by Freestyle Rep and Synergy Theater. Five playwrights from both coasts will write short plays based on audience suggestions followed by often-brilliant, always-fun cold readings.
This time around I’m co-hosting with Michael Durkin. Our playwrights will be: Laura Livingston, Kenn Adams, and special guest, screenwriter Bill Marcili
Audience members will engage in some fun creative writing exercises while the playwrights do their thing off-screen. It will also be broadcast on Facebook Live.
April Write Away! 2023
We’ll once again zoomcast an improv/playwriting/cold-read mashup produced by Freestyle Rep and Synergy Theater. Five playwrights from both coasts will write short plays based on audience suggestions followed by often-brilliant, always-fun cold readings.
This time around I’m co-hosting with Kenn Adams. Our playwrights will be: Sheila Head, Laura Livingston, Emmy Laybourne, Chris Marcil & Laura Valpey.
Audience members will engage in some fun creative writing exercises while the playwrights do their thing off-screen. It will also be broadcast on Facebook Live.
April 17th, 4:15pm PST, 7:15 EST
Fringe of Marin
Fringe of Marin is having a short play festival featuring my play, Three Centimeters Per Second, along with plays by Rod McFadden, Pat Morin, Karen Pierce Gonzales, and Marsha Roberts. Come on out. I’ll be there for both shows and would love to see my Bay Area friends at the lovely Belrose Theatre in San Rafael.
October 14th, 7pm
& October 16th, 2pm
Lucy in the Clouds
You missed the first reading of my play Lucy in the Clouds, but luckily it’s still available. This short play is close to my heart! In it, a chance meeting at the laundromat leads to connection between a woman of a certain age and a young man find themselves sharing more than a wash cycle.
The play was brilliantly acted and directed, and I was nurtured and supported by the Dragon Eggs team. All in all a magnificent experience.
My play begins at 36:12 but I recommend watching all three plays.
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Sunday, July 17th
People’s Choice Award
Guess what?!? My play, Three Centimeters Per Second, won the People’s Choice Award for Monday Night Playground’s February 21st performance. I’m so grateful for the incredible support I received from so many of you. Thank you if you watched or voted for the play.
What does this all mean? For one thing, the play will be considered along with other People’s Choice award winners from the season to be included in a performance on the Portero Stage in San Francisco later this spring. It also means I’ll be showered with wealth and fame. Just kidding! But it does mean that the play has this honor forever attached to it, and me too.
My Play at Freight & Salvage
My play Three Centimeters Per Second will be part of an evening of staged readings, ten-minute plays inspired by the topic, ‘What the World Needs Now.’
Three Centimeters Per Second takes place one year after the pandemic’s over, on the day that all covid restrictions are finally lifted. Will it be joyous for everyone?
If you’re on the East Coast or in the Midwest or heck, in the West but have plans that night, get tickets to stream the show. You’ll have one week to watch it On-Demand.
By the way, masks and proof of three vaccinations required to enter.
Monday, February 21st, 7pm
Live, Streamed OR
On-Demand
(Free)
February Write Away! 2022
We’ll once again zoomcast an improv/playwriting/cold-read mashup produced by Freestyle Rep and Synergy Theater. Five playwrights from both coasts will write short plays based on audience suggestions followed by often-brilliant, always-fun cold readings.
Audience members will engage in some fun creative writing exercises while the playwrights do their thing off-screen. It will also be broadcast on Facebook Live.
February 28th, 4:15pm (7:15pm ET)
January Write Away! 2022
Upon clicking, the first play you’ll see will be mine, followed by four more wonderful plays. I perform in all four along with a very talented group of folks.
Watch December’s Performance
Watch last month’s plays here, including three I performed in, and one I wrote.
In the Playoffs
The Playoffs festival includes six “play groups”, with each group featuring staged readings of FIVE ten-minute plays by Playwrights Center of San Francisco members. Audience members of each group will vote for their two favorite plays in that group. The top audience favorite from each group will receive a full production in the fall. The PlayOffs showcases the talents of 30 PCSF playwrights, 6 directors and 45 actors. My short play, Pebbles on a Shore, will be presented on July 25th at 2pm. It’s free, but you need to register.
I’d love your support!
July 25th, 2021
Write Away!
We’ll once again zoomcast an improv/playwriting/cold-read mashup produced by Freestyle Rep and Synergy Theater. Five playwrights from both coasts will write short plays based on audience suggestions followed by mostly-brilliant, always-fun cold readings.
Audience members will engage in some fun creative writing exercises while the playwrights do their thing off-screen. Click the button to register for this free event. It will also be broadcast on Facebook Live.
July 19, 2021
At home? Me, too. Looking for ways to be creative.
Murmurations is a monologue inspired by the times. An Inside Voices production.
Let’s make some theater!
Lisa Gaye Thompson begins her fourth season with Monday Night Playground in Berkeley where her plays Strike Home and Three Centimeters Per Second have been staged. Three Centimeters Per Second took home the People’s Choice Award earlier this year. Her play Lucy in the Clouds had a staged reading in the Dragon Eggs Short Play Incubator. She writes essays, short stories and lyrics. She’s also a company member of Write Away, a monthly show featuring playwrights from NYC and the Bay Area writing plays in forty-five minutes based on audience suggestions and then performing them.
Reach out: hello (at) lisagayethompson (dot) com