Lori Fischer
Lori Fischer/Playwright/Screenwriter/Actress/Professor
www.lorifischer.net
Education
Lori Fischer received her M.F.A. from New York University’s Department of Dramatic Writing in 2008.
Awards:
2018 Special Consideration Relentless Award
2018 Finalist Downtown Urban Arts Festival
2018 Semi-Finalist B Street Theatre Comedy Festival
2017 Nominated for Outstanding Original Work, Midwinter’s First Night Awards
2016 Finalist Florida Repertory PlayLab Festival
2016 Semi-finalist for Eugene O’Neill Theater Center’s National Playwrights Conference
2015 Included in the Florida Studio Theatre Richard and Betty Burdick Play Reading
Series
2014 Best Comedy Feature Award, Manhattan Film Festival
2014 Visionfest 14 Outstanding achievement in Screenwriting Nominee
2013 Best Comedy Feature Award, Burbank International Film Festival
2012 Richard Rogers Award Finalist, The Sparkley Clean Funeral Singers
2012 Semi-finalist for The Eugene O’Neill Musical Theatre Workshop
2008 New York University Harry Kondoleon Graduate Award in Playwriting recipient
2008-09 Dramatists Guild Fellow
2007 New York University Goldberg Playwriting Award Runner-up
2008 Nominated for the David Mark Cohen National Playwriting Award
2008 KCACTF Region II Certificate of Merit recipient
2009 Best Original Play Award, 2009 North Carolina Theatre Conference, Central Region Competition
2010 Cherry Lane Theater Mentor Project Nominee
1997 Belmont University Athletic Hall of Fame inductee/Two-time Academic
All-American/Two-time NAIA All-American in Track and Field
Playwriting Credits:
Barbara’s Blue Kitchen
Book, music and lyrics by Lori Fischer
A slice-of-life musical comedy produced Off-Broadway at the Lamb’s Theatre in 2006
Published by Samuel French, Inc. in 2007
Produced and starred in regionally:
At Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Spring 2002
The Adirondack Theatre Festival, Summer 2000
Bongo Java Upstairs Theater, Summer 2014
Also included in the 2000 ASCAP Musical Theatre Workshop, E.S.T Octoberfest, York Theatre Developmental Play Reading Series, Florida Studio Theatre Playwriting Festival
Produced at Cumberland County Playhouse, January, 2015
Bartlett Performing Arts & Conference Center, October, 2015
Pipeline Collective, Album Release performance, 2019
The Sparkley Clean Funeral Singers
Book by Lori Fischer, Music and lyrics by Lori Fischer and Don Chaffer
2017 Nominated for Outstanding Original Work, Midwinter’s First Night Awards
2017 Nominated for Outstanding Ensemble Performance in a Musical, Midwinter’s First
Night Awards
2016 Published by Samuel French
2016 Produced and starred in at Cumberland County Playhouse
2015 Included in the Florida Studio Theatre Richard and Betty Burdick Play Reading
Series
2013 Produced and starred in regionally at Capitol Repertory Theatre
2012 Richard Rogers Award Finalist
2012 Semi-finalist Eugene O’Neill Musical Theatre Conference
2012 Included in The York Theatre Reading Series, February and September
Petie
2018 Screencraft Stage Play Competition Quarter Finalist
2017 Produced and starred in at Theatre East, NYC
2015 Received a reading at Lipscomb University
2015 Included in the King’s College New Play Reading Series
2013 Produced and starred in regionally at Duke Energy Theatre, Starving Artist
Productions
2007 New York University Goldberg Playwriting Award Runner-up
2008 Nominated for the David Mark Cohen National Playwriting Award
2008 Kennedy Center ACTF Region II Festival
2008 KCACTF Region II Certificate of Merit recipient
Greener Pastures
NYU Thesis Professor Marsha Norman
2018 Semi-Finalist B Street Theatre Comedy Festival
2017 Produced at The Cumberland County Playhouse
2016 Finalist Florida Repertory PlayLab Festival
New York University, M.F.A. Thesis Reading, Public Theatre
Starring: Lois Smith, Lynn Cohen, Roberta Maxwell, Peter Francis James
How to Get Famous (formerly titled Real Life Drama)
2018 Downtown Urban Arts Finalist
2015 and 2009 Included in Theatre for the New City’s Scratch Night Reading Series
2009 Word Bridge Semi-Finalist
2008 Kennedy Center, M.F.A. Playwriting Workshop
Land Grab (formerly titled The Displaced)
Special Consideration 2018 Relentless Award
Included in Culture Project’s Women Center Stage, 2018
Semi-Finalist Unicorn Theatre’s 2017-2018 In-Progress Play Reading Series
Semi-Finalist Eugene O’Neill Theater Center’s 2016 National Playwrights Conference
Included in the Culture Project’s 2015 Summer Reading Series, NYC
Commissioned by Theatre C/Carlos Armesto New York, NY
Received the 2013 A.R.T. Alumni Lab Grant
The Memory of Damage
Selected for 2019 reading with Theatre East, NYC
Received a reading at SWAN Day ’08, Washington, DC
2016 Source Festival Top 20 Finalist
LORIFISCHER(Playwright/Actress) is the “2008 New York University Harry Kondoleon Graduate Award in Playwriting” recipient and a 2008-09 Dramatists Guild Fellow. Lori received her M.F.A. from the N.Y.U. Dramatic Writing Department in 2008. Theater Credits: Lori’s drama Petie has been called a modern day classic and was recently produced by Theatre East in NYC. Lori co-wrote and starred in her musical The Sparkley Clean Funeral Singers(Published by Samuel French) at Capital Repertory Theatre and the Cumberland County Playhouse. Lori also wrote and starred in her Off-Broadway musical Barbara’s Blue Kitchen. (Published by Samuel French) In 2017, Lori performed in her comedy Greener Pastures at Cumberland County Playhouse. Screenwriting Credits:Lori is a 2014 Independent Vision Award Nominee for Outstanding achievement in Screenwriting for her feature film Chasing Taste. Chasing Taste was the Feature Comedy Award Winner at the 2014 Manhattan Film Festival as well as at the 2013 Burbank International Film Festival. Chasing Tasteis now available on Amazon Prime, iTunes and Verizon FIOS To download the film go to: www.chasingtastethemovie. Lori is an Adjunct Writing Professor at both New York University and Lipscomb University and taught playwriting and acting for seven years to 4thand 5thgraders through Queens Theatre in the Park. Most recently, she joined the Dramatists Guild Foundation’s new playwriting initiative. Lori is a two-time All-American in Track and Field. As an actress, Lori has performed Off-Broadway in the musical Cowgirls, in various regional theaters, movies and commercials. www.lorifischer.net