Rate My Professor Lisa Channer

Channer's productions have been staged at renowned venues worldwide, including New York's Public Theatre and 92nd Street Y, Yale Repertory Theatre, Jacobs Pillow Dance Festival, Amsterdam's ITs Festival, Belfast's Old Museum Arts Centre, California's Z Space, Russian festivals like Bodyword and Osobniak Theatre, and Minneapolis institutions such as Walker Art Center, Illusion Theater, Playwrights’ Center, Open Eye Figure Theatre, Red Eye Theater, and Park Square Theatre. A recipient of Fulbright and Fox Foundation awards, she served as an Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) Residential Faculty Fellow in Spring 2025, developing “Eileen in '60,” a documentary film exploring her mother's 1960 secret pregnancy and adoption through family archives and interviews on reproductive rights. Notable creative works include films Standoff and Girls of the Painted Bird (2022/2023) with Savannah Reich, the robot-performed play RANT at Red Eye Theater and Z Space, and co-directing a Kurt Weill–Bertolt Brecht Festival with University of Minnesota units. Her interdisciplinary practice significantly impacts theatre arts education and performance creation.