LIZI WATT (Mary Anning in Digging Up Dessa)

Lizi Watt returns to St. Louis after 17 years in Boulder and Los Angeles, where she studied contemporary performance (M.F.A., Naropa University) and worked as a director, educator, performer, and writer. Some performance credits include Alarm at Blue Roof Studios (LA), Daedalus’ Daughter at REDCAT (LA), Hamlet with Prison Performing Arts (featured on This American Life), Weetzie Bat at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, two and a half years touring with Metro Theater Company (US and Taiwan), The Lysistrata Project (part of the Global Peace Initiative) and Big Love and Midsummer Night’s Dream with Boulder/ Denver-based theatre, Band of Toughs. She is the author of House of Daughters, It’s a Girl, and Mama, a solo performance piece. She has also contributed to many devised works, including Saltwater with the International Theatre Collective, The Blind Watchmaker at the Bug Theatre, and (Re)Production at FoolsFURY. Lizi has taught at New York University’s Experimental Theater Wing, Naropa University, Rhodes College, the William Inge Theatre Festival, the National Alliance of Acting Teachers: Teacher Development Program, Marlborough School, COCA, and has regional directing credits across the country.