Stathoplos
lisa
Stathoplos
writer ✧ actor ✧ behavior specialist ✧ educator
Actor
Highlights of Lisa’s work on stage include Maire in Friel’s TRANSLATIONS at Worcester Forum. She was a Spotlight Award nominee for creating the role of Emily in Mike Kimball’s THE SECRET OF COMEDY for NY Theater Company, Portsmouth, N.H. She won critical acclaim playing Maria Callas in Terrence McNally’s MASTER CLASS at Good Theater. At Portland Stage, she created the role of Marie in Monica Wood’s PAPERMAKER and played Sharon in Jen Silverman’s THE ROOMMATE.
Lisa's Demo Reel
She is a founding member of Mad Horse Theatre Company, Portland Maine. She performed with Eve Ensler in her VAGINA MONOLOGUES at Merrill Auditorium, Portland. Her work as the character of Violet Weston in Tracy Lett’s AUGUST:OSAGE COUNTY at Good Theater earned her the 2011 Portland PEER Award for Best Performance.
Film work includes Ellie Lee’s DOG DAYS, Winner, Best Short 2000 Hamptons and Florida Film Festivals, FAMILY TREES by Lars Trodson, Berlin Film Festival, Louis Frederick’s DRINK ME and her first speaking role on film with a dog returned from the dead in Stephen King’s PET SEMATARY.
Voice work with PocketUniverse Productions for Audible.com includes voicing Nina Locke in Joe Hill’s LOCKE AND KEY/ multiple AUDIE Award winner; Diana Fowley in THE X-FILES, COLD CASES with David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson/2018 multiple AUDIE Award nominee; THE STARLING PROJECT by Jefferey Deavers playing opposite Alfred Molina/2016 AUDIE Award, Best Original Work; THE VAULT OF HORROR from EC Comics/Winner Best AudioDrama, 2020 Independent Book Awards. She played Captain Frey in HOMEFRONT: EXPEDITIONARY FORCE with Kate Mulgrew and Zachary Quinto and won a 2019 Earphones Award/Audiofile Magazine for her narration of Mary Gabriel’s NINTH STREET WOMEN.
Kat Moraros Photography
Dog Days
Award-winning film from Ellie Lee
In September of 2023, a new play written by Roland Tec premiered at The Hill Arts in Portland Maine.
In "What We Get To Keep" Lisa played the part of Helen.
"Lisa Stathoplos.......wonderful to see you onstage again in your element.......... you are singularly great on stage. You bring your own light."
Morgan Callan Rogers, author of "A Red Ruby Heart in a Deep Blue Sea"
What?! A Friend We Have In Jesus?
written and performed by Lisa for Roland Tec's (Director/Producer/Scriptwriter/Pinkplot Productions/New York, NY) Advanced Monologue Writer's Workshop
"At last December's Advanced Monologue Workshop, one of my favorite actors decided to join us and work some of the fundamentals of strong monologue writing. Lisa Stathoplos is an artist of great depth and nuance. And if you're not familiar with her acting, she has published the first of two memoirs and it's pretty damn good. Take a look here.
The monologue Lisa wrote in class is so wonderful and her performance of it so riveting, that I wanted to share it with you here because it really is a fine example of everything that monologue can do in terms of pulling the curtain back to reveal a character we might otherwise have overlooked"
Roland Tec
OPINIONS EXPRESSED ARE NOT
written by Yvette Couser, who was chosen as audience favorite, directed by Suze Allen and performed by Lisa Stathoplos at the 3rd Annual Hear Me Out Monologues Festival, November 25, 2022
"Suze and Lisa analyzed, debated, gave and took notes, created motives for the character and saw things I had not seen or considered as the author. And Lisa's performance was LUMINOUS. Watching you both take my work seriously filled me with so much love and gratitude and frankly, creative confidence that I hadn't realized I was lacking."
Yvette Couser
Find Me
written by Michael Crockett and performed by Lisa Stathoplos at the July 2021 Some1Speaking