Writing
Playwright - TV Writer - Screenwriter
Awards: Final Draft Big Break Quarter Finalist (TV Pilot “Missing”), Featured on Blacklists Top Lists (TV Pilot “Missing”)
Lisah is a member of Cahill Writers Lab directed by Laura Cahill
Theater Writing
PRODUCED THEATER WORKS
February 2025 - Teenage Dreaming @ The Chain Theater
August 2024 - Teenage Dreaming @ The Producers Club
August 2024 - here @ The Producers Club
August 2024 - here @ The Gural Theatre
December 2023 - The Difference In Getting Better Reading with Cathy Curtin and Rebecca Jimenez
June 2022 - Little(er) Women @ LHG Creative Studios
THEATER WRITING-IN-PROGRESS
What Happened Here - A love story that explores regret, worth and Melanie and Salomon’s moment in time together.
JuneDay - Most childhood friends opt to forget their past when they turn thirty. Start adulthood on a clean slate. At least that’s what Rella, Ula and Brianna want. But when they gather at the old cabin to celebrate their deceased childhood friend, June’s, birthday, the women are suddenly forced to face their dark pasts and strive to do what June couldn’t do, come out the other side of it, alive.
Teenage Dreaming by Lisah Graziano Actors: Taya Fedorenko, Miller Brandon Director Ravin Patterson
here by Lisah Graziano Director Ravin Patterson
Film & TV Writing
PILOTS ON SPEC
MISSING (Hour Long Drama, History Based) (Quarter Finalist - Final Draft Big Break, Featured on Blacklists Top Lists)
In 1924 J. Edgar Hoover took over as head of the FBI and forced Alaska P Davidson, the first and only female FBI Agent, to resign. For the next 52 years, no woman was allowed to work in the force outside of secretarial and stenography employment.
On May 2nd 1972 J. Edgar Hoover Died suddenly of a heart attack. The news of his death changed the course of life for many women working at the FBI, both in their professional and personal lives.
This pilot is inspired by my Grandmothers time working as an FBI Stenographer and the massive impact, opportunity and decision J Edgar Hoovers Death thrust upon the women working in the offices during that time.
Logline: When a 1970s FBI stenographer finally has the opportunity to apply as one of the first female agents, she is forced to decide between becoming a career woman and having the traditional family that she always wanted.
WRESTLAND (Hour Long Drama, Fantasy) Logline coming soon
FILM WRITING-IN-PROGRESS
AUGUST LEAVES (Feature Film) Inspired by a true story. After finding his father dead of a heart attack on the highway, the youngest son struggles to cope with his fathers death and accept that his relationship with and memories of his father do not match those of his family. It’s a story of love, grief, connection and how we choose to remember those who leave us behind.
THE DARK END OF THE HALL (Short Film) When Emilie, a recently orphaned child, suffering from grief and PTSD, arrives at Remsen Home for Troubled Girls, she is met with little understanding and constant torment from her peers. As her need for connection grows she wanders farther and farther into “safety”, the depths of her psyche, the dark end of the hall, where witches and evil are said to live. But how far down the hall can she go until there is no return and she is lost in the dark forever?
The film combines the lore of Brooklyn witch trials with the dark end of the human psyche.
PRODUCED WORKS
2023 - Monopoly: White Supremacy Edition
2023 - The Party
2021 - THINK
2020 - Tourists
Monopoly: White Privilege Edition - Written by Lisah Graziano Directed by Earl Shirley jr
EDUCATION
Playwriting: Laura Cahill
TV Writing: Francine Volpe, Laura Cahill, Kerri Doherty, Liz Garcia, Jim Mendrinos, Brent Forrester
Screenwriting: Lorrell Manning, Laura Cahill