Lisa L. Biggs, Ph.D., is a performance studies scholar, actress and playwright originally from the SouthSide of Chicago.
RECENT EVENTS
Feb 24, 2024 - Amherst College LitFest. 3PM. Frost Library, Amherst, MA. Free! Events are in-person and online, but registration is required: www.amherst.edu/about/literary-amherst/litfest
Feb 23, 2024 — Check out my interview with Randi Richardson (Brown University ‘20) about Beyonce, Texas Hold’Em & the line dance her song ignited https://www.today.com/popculture/music/beyonce-texas-hold-em-line-dancing-trend-rcna139764
Feb 22, 2024 - Catch me on the Fabulous 413 podcast https://www.nepm.org/podcast/the-fabulous-413
Feb 8, 2024 - Announcements! THE HEALING STAGE is a finalist for the Barnard Hewitt Award for Outstanding Scholarship in Theatre History. Winner to be announced March 8th.
Reimagining the University: Race and Freedoms, Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL. Oct. 27, 2023.
Works of Justice (Oct. 27, 2023) : "Lisa Biggs on Black Women’s Healing and Prison Performance Programs” https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/worksofjustice
Stamps School of Design & the Theatre Department, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI. Sept. 20-22, 2023.
Imagination and Mass Incarceration. Trinity Repertory Theatre, Providence, RI. June 26, 2023
Dreamleapers with Henrietta Cole on WBAI (April 19, 2023): https://youtu.be/h0Ukqag1ATU?si=ZFHuvrYs3jqHnyVY
New Books Network (Jan. 18, 2023): Lisa Biggs, “The Healing Stage: Black Women, Incarceration and the Art of Transformation” (2023): https://newbooksnetwork.com/the-healing-stage