Lisa Loomer is an award-winning playwright and screenwriter, who has also worked as an actress and stand-up comic. Ms. Loomer’s play Roe, was originally commissioned through the Oregon Shakespeare Festival's American Revolutions program. It was produced at OSF, Arena Stage, Berkeley Rep, and now ZACH Theatre. It received the Jane Chambers Playwriting Award and the Pen Award. 

She is best known for her play The Waiting Room (1994), which went from the Williamstown Theater Festival to being widely produced nationally and internationally. Other plays include: Homefree (Road Theatre), Café Vida, about female gang members (Cornerstone Theatre Company), Two Things You Don't Talk About at Dinner (Denver Center for the Performing Arts), Distracted (Mark Taper Forum), Expecting Isabell (Arena Stage), and Bocón!, a political fable for young audiences (Kennedy Center). Living Out  has been produced at theaters across the world, often in bi-lingual productions. 

Ms. Loomer is an alumna of New Dramatists and the recipient of the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, the Kennedy Center Fund for New American Plays Award, a Garland Award, a Lurie Foundation Award, an Ovation Award, and the American Theatre Critics Association Award, twice. She has also received an Imagen Award for positive portrayals of Latinos in all media. Loomer also writes for film and television; her films include Girl Interrupted, and Nappily Ever After for Netflix. Loomer studied theatre at Brandeis University and New York University's Tisch School of the Arts