Lissa Moira is an actress, playwright, and director. Recent acting credits include Alizia in Time It Is (Theater for the New City), Djuna Barnes in In Search of Women of the Left Bank (Irish Repertory Theatre), Jill in John Chatterton's Slap! (Trocadero), Mrs. Hardcastle in She Stoops to Conquer (Don't Tell Mama), Sunny in I'm Alone Honest (Kraine), and multiple characters in Sexual Psychobabble. Her first independent feature, Moving In Moving Out, in which she plays Tina, a played-out, coke-addicted hooker, is making the festival circuit. Catch her at Pulse Ensemble in Poetic Injustice (Nov. 18-22) and back at Theater for the New City in May of 1998 in Time It Is.
Lissa's most recent directing credits include Painted Ladies, at Italian-American Rep., Dogs and Rabbits (Guidepost Theatre), Time It Is (TNC), Bill's Window (Playwrights Horizons), NecKromancy (TNC), The Sexual Psychobabble Cycle (at numerous theatres), Six Characters In Search Of an Author (Trocadero), Ultra Violet's You Are Who You Eat (TNC), Savage In Limbo and Danny And the Deep Blue Sea (Theatre 22).
She co-created with Richard West Sexual Psychobabble (which played all around town for 18 months). She was a recipient of the Jerome Foundation Grant for Emerging Playwrights for NecKromancy. Her play Time It Is (which was originally created for the Lower East Side Festival of the Arts, in June 1996), was chosen by oobr editor John Chatterton for the First Annual OOBR Festival of One-Acts.
Richard West (playwright, musician, performance artist, actor, poet) has co-authored and performed with Lissa Moira in Sexual Psychobabble and Sexistentialism and a variety of short comic pieces. ("Lissa of shapely mind and body has guided and inspired my strage odyssey into theater.") Among his other writing and performing credits are Warhol In Hell (TNC), Coastal Complexes (SoHo Arts Festival to Theater Row), Enlightenment on the Installment Plan (Sounds capade Pacifica & Recordings radio), The Blue Monkey Variety Show (NoHo Playhouse), Art Existence & Stuff (TNC), The Beat Jubilee (TNC), The Floating Duck Variety Show (TNC), Coming of Age in a Stoned Decade and You Sure Got a Lot of Nervana (Pacifica Radio), That's More Like It (Manhattan Cable), You Used to Think (ESP Records), and Indies - Exile on Mott St. and Gypsy Ragas.