WIT Red Carpet - 2007 Awardees

LISA WOLPE is an actress, director, and producer, and is the Artistic Director of the Los Angeles Women's Shakespeare Company, an award-winning all-female, multi-cultural theater company that she founded in 1993. Television coverage of her work includes TNN, NBC, ABC, PBS, London's Arts Channel, and CNN. NBC News featured her as a "Local Hero" for her work, and L.A. Magazine named the LAWSC one of the "10 Coolest Things to Do in Los Angeles". She has directed twenty-two productions of Shakespeare’s plays, and performed leading roles in eighteen Shakespearean productions.

Her directing and performing credits include Berkeley Repertory Theater, Shakespeare & Company, Revels, Boston Center for the Arts, the Arizona Theater Company, San Diego Repertory Company, People's Light and Theater Company, Company of Women, New Women's Repertory Company, Boston Theater Works, California Shakespeare Festival, and the Sedona Shakespeare Festival.

Ms. Wolpe has taught and directed Shakespeare for many universities and training programs, including the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco, Shakespeare & Company, Sedona Shakespeare, University of Southern California, Cal Poly Pomona, Emerson College, Boston University, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In addition, she has presented numerous lecture/demonstrations and hands-on workshops as an invited guest speaker at organizations across the country.