Dr. Lisa Biggs

Dreamleapers on WBAI with Dr. Lisa Biggs - Video Premiere: April 19, 2023 at 7pm ET

Join me for a conversation with Dr. Lisa Biggs, author of The Healing Stage: Black Women, Incarceration, and the Art of Transformation. Tune in on Wednesday, April 19, 2023 2:30pm ET on WBAI 99.5 FM in NYC or livestream on WBAI.ORG.

Lisa Biggs, Ph.D., is the author of The Healing Stage: Black Women, Incarceration, and the Art of Transformation (2022). Dr. Biggs is an assistant professor at Brown University in the Department of Africana Studies/Rites and Reason Theatre. Prior to joining the Brown faculty, she taught at Michigan State University and had a long career as an actor and playwright, primarily working in regional theatres. Her stage credits include productions at the Kennedy Center, Arena Stage, Living Stage Theatre Company, ETA Creative Arts Foundation, Woolly Mammoth, and Lookingglass Theatre. Her original stage plays have been produced at the National Black Theatre Festival, Links Hall, Shadowbox Theatre, Cultural Odyssey, the NY Hip Hop Theatre Fest, DC Arts Center, the Baltimore Theatre Project, Amherst College, and Michigan State University, amongst others. Her creative work and scholarship has been supported by numerous grants and fellowships, including from the DC Arts Council/National Endowment for the Arts, State of Michigan, Links Hall, and the Ellen Stone Belic Foundation.

Her most recent play, After/Life, was awarded a 2017 Knight Foundation Detroit Arts Challenge grant.