Actress, Playwright, Screenwriter, Professor, Teaching Artist
Screenwriting
About Me
Short Bio
LORI FISCHER (Playwright/Actress/Professor) received her M.F.A. from the N.Y.U. Dramatic Writing Department. She is a New York University Harry Kondoleon Graduate Award in Playwriting recipient, a Dramatists Guild Fellow and a member of the Dramatists Guild Foundation’s new playwriting initiative.
Theater Credits: Lori’s drama Petie has been called a modern day classic and was recently produced by Theatre East in NYC. Lori wrote and starred in her musical Barbara’s Blue Kitchen at The Adirondack Theatre Festival, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park and Off-Broadway at the Lamb’s Theatre.
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Lori co-wrote and starred in her musical The Sparkley Clean Funeral Singersat Capital Repertory Theatre and the Cumberland County Playhouse.
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Screenwriting Credits: 2014 Independent Vision Award Nominee for Outstanding achievement in Screenwriting for the feature film Chasing Taste. More information here. 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. Lori is an Adjunct Writing Professor at both New York University and Lipscomb University. A two-time All-American in Track and Field, Lori has performed regionally, Off-Broadway and in various movies and commercial
Teaching Artist
Lori has taught 4th graders playwriting for the last ten years through Queens Theatre in the Park and most recently through the Dramatist Guild Foundation's New Voices Project.
