full-length plays
Synopsis; Sitcom fantasies and small town reality collide in one woman’s search for certainty in an ever-changing world.
AWARDS
DEVELOPMENT
Westword: The 21 Best Events in Denver
While The Mrs. Wheatland Pageant may not have all the pomp and circumstance of the Miss America Pageant, this new play by Lisa Wagner Erickson, opening Thursday February 28, at Theater 29, Promises to run away with the Miss Congeniality award. Presented by the Lulubird Project and Directed by Hart DeRose, the world premiere will mix sitcom nostalgia, small-town reality and gender norms.”
Broadway World: The Lulubird Project Presents THE MRS. WHEATLAND PAGEANT at Theater 29
“1950's sitcom fantasies, small town beauty pageants, strange fertility regimens, and gender norms collide in this rollicking comedy.”
Las Cruces Bulletin: And the winner is - ‘The Mrs. Wheatland Pageant’!
” 1950's What do you do if you’re about to turn 30, you are desperate to have a baby and your husband is suddenly wearing an apron and pumps? You host a beauty pageant, of course!”
AWARDS
- Semi-Finalist, The Landing Theater's New American Voices Play Reading Series, Houston, TX. 2015
- Semi-Finalist, PlayPenn Conference, Philadelphia, PA. 2013
- No Strings Theatre, Las Cruces, NM. 2019
- Lulubird Project at Theater 29, Denver, CO. 2019
DEVELOPMENT
- Workshop, Edge Theatre’s On Your Feet Development Series, Lakewood, CO. 2015-2016
- Staged Reading, Lesley University’s Marran Theater, Cambridge, MA. 2012
Westword: The 21 Best Events in Denver
While The Mrs. Wheatland Pageant may not have all the pomp and circumstance of the Miss America Pageant, this new play by Lisa Wagner Erickson, opening Thursday February 28, at Theater 29, Promises to run away with the Miss Congeniality award. Presented by the Lulubird Project and Directed by Hart DeRose, the world premiere will mix sitcom nostalgia, small-town reality and gender norms.”
Broadway World: The Lulubird Project Presents THE MRS. WHEATLAND PAGEANT at Theater 29
“1950's sitcom fantasies, small town beauty pageants, strange fertility regimens, and gender norms collide in this rollicking comedy.”
Las Cruces Bulletin: And the winner is - ‘The Mrs. Wheatland Pageant’!
” 1950's What do you do if you’re about to turn 30, you are desperate to have a baby and your husband is suddenly wearing an apron and pumps? You host a beauty pageant, of course!”
*Play in progress
Synopsis: There has been a sexual assault on campus. However, the newly formed Title IX Emergency Response Team is ill equipped and unprepared to take on an increasingly strange investigation.
DEVELOPMENT
Synopsis: There has been a sexual assault on campus. However, the newly formed Title IX Emergency Response Team is ill equipped and unprepared to take on an increasingly strange investigation.
DEVELOPMENT
- Lighthouse Writers Dramatic Writing Workshop, Denver, CO. 2018
A SHINY QUEST
Synopsis: A gnome embarks on a quest for the shiniest plastic stone.
*Play in process
An audio play based on A SHINY QUEST premiered in Project PlayBox in 2020. Denver Westword called project Project PlayBox, “a novel theatrical experience for these stay-at-home, virus-plagued times.”
Synopsis: A gnome embarks on a quest for the shiniest plastic stone.
*Play in process
An audio play based on A SHINY QUEST premiered in Project PlayBox in 2020. Denver Westword called project Project PlayBox, “a novel theatrical experience for these stay-at-home, virus-plagued times.”
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short plays
Synopsis: A woman tries to end an S&M -type relationship with her scale. The scale has other plans.
AWARDS
- Regional Finalist, Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival 10-Minute Play Award, Sacramento, CA. 2013
PRODUCTIONS
- Stickball Productions, Boston, MA. 2014
- Saint Mary’s College, Moraga, CA. 2013
DEVELOPMENT
- Staged Reading, Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival, Sacramento, CA. 2013
- Staged Reading, Estrogenius Extended at Manhattan Theater Source, New York City, 2012
- Staged Reading, Lesley University, Boston, MA. 2012
PRESS
Boston Globe: “Don’t miss the curtain-riser ‘Step On Me,’ a hilarious short play by Lisa Wagner Erickson that toys with one woman’s obsession with the bathroom scale.”
Synopsis: Two hipsters suffering from affluenza enter into strange negotiations with a recalcitrant gnome.
PRODUCTIONS
PRODUCTIONS
- Featured in Hidden Worlds & Strange Negotiations, Lulubird Project at Theater 29, Denver, CO. 2019
- PlayCrawl, And Toto too, Denver, CO. 2019
Synopsis: Ben offers the seemingly naive Willow the feature role in his independent film. But when the sacrifices Ben asks willow to make for the part cross the line from bizarre to abusive, Willow turns the tables and gives Ben a dose of his own medicine.
PRODUCTIONS
PRODUCTIONS
- Featured in Wedding Cake Vodka, DirtyFish Theater, Denver, CO. 2016
- Playcrawl, And Toto too, Denver, CO. 2015
