Lisa McCree’s plays include: "Faces in My Fist", "The Horn of Salvation and Indignation" (directed by Bill Cobbs), "P.S. Write Back", "Miss Diagnosis", "A Year Ago Today", "Anna B. Smith", "The Clique", "Two Brothers", "And My Name Ain’t Peaches", "Coming to Term", "Inheriting The Well", "Same Chit Different Chat", "Trace Mountain", the story of Mamie Thurman, "The Neighbor", "Lynching In A Sacred Place", "Jas In Motherland", "Asylum Down", "One Night Standstill", "The long and short Of It", "Frank And Fran", "Issue Is Issue Ain't", "The Miserable Matter of Slavery", "Word Warriors" and "Permanent Stain".
Lisa’s work has been produced and/or developed by Harlem Theater Co., New Perspectives 5.0, Silver Trane, Theater Outlet (Allentown Pennsylvania), Access Theater (NY), The Genesius Guild, Saint Mark’s Theater, The Henry Street Settlement (Women of Color Festival), The Atlantic Theater, Neighborhood Playhouse (NY), CUNY College Radio (NY), and WBAI 9905FM (NY).
Commissioned works include theatrical pieces for The Medicine Show, Sea Island Nightmare, The Miserable Matter of Slavery, Russel Simmons, and Def Comedy Jam (comics Rob Stapleton and Tha Stuff). Commissioned full-feature screenplays to include: The Spirited Actor, Asylum Down, and acting challenge scripts. Published works include: And My Name Ain’t Peaches.
Readings of Lisa’s plays were performed at Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture (NY), Billy Holiday Theater (Brooklyn, NY), Brooklyn N. Slims, New Perspectives, NYU Ten Minute Play Festival, The Heritage Heights Village Project Co., Youth Empower Movement, and the Fredrick Douglas Creative Arts Center. Through the playwright’s production company, The Writer’s Clique, she has self-produced more than a dozen of her works in restaurants, lounges, and black box theater spaces throughout Harlem.
Awards and Top Honors include Humanitarian Award (Allentown, PA), New York University’s 1-2 Idea into Action Playwriting Competition; Frank Silveras’ Writers’ Workshop; and the National Black Theater Festival (Winston-Salem, NC). Member of NAACP Member, and Phi Theta Kappa Past President and active member. Graduate of Housatonic Community College, (Associates of Theater Arts & General Studies). She was also an artist in residence at the Genesius Guild.