Talent Guide

Lisa Sanaye Dring

  • Discipline:Writer
  • Program Year:Episodic Lab 2021

Bio

Lisa co-wrote and co-directed Welcome to the Blumhouse Live, an interactive film event for Blumhouse/Amazon Prime by Little Cinema, which has been nominated for a 2021 Emmy in the category of Outstanding Interactive Program. She is a member of the 2021/22 WarnerMedia Access (formerly HBO) TV Writers Fellowship and the Giant Leap Accelerator. As a playwright, Lisa was honored as a recipient of the 2020/21 PLAY LA Stage Raw/Humanitas Prize. She has been a finalist for the O’Neill Playwrights Conference, the Relentless Award, the Bay Area Playwrights Festival and The Seven Devils Playwrights Conference. She graduated from USC. 

Current Project

Kintsugi

Logline

When their mother dies, three vastly different, third-generation Japanese Americans must come together to run the family restaurant and forge a new meaning of family.