Lisa Loomer is an American playwright and screenwriter who has also
worked as an actress and stand-up comic. She is best known for her
play The Waiting Room (1994), in which three women from different time
periods meet in a modern doctor's waiting room, each suffering from
the effects of their various societies' cosmetic body modification
practices (foot binding, corsetry, and breast implantation). She also
co-wrote the screenplay for the film Girl Interrupted. Many of her
plays deal with the experiences of Latinx and immigrant characters.
Others deal with social and political issues through the lens of
contemporary family life. Beyond that, Loomer's play The Waiting Room
discusses issues such as body image, breast cancer, and non-Western
medicine.Lisa Loomer was born in New York and moved to Mexico with her
family in her late teens. Loomer studied theatre at Brandeis
University and New York University's Tisch School of the Arts.Loomer
is married to composer and painter Joe Romano; they have one son,
Marcello.She is of Spanish and Romanian ancestry.
worked as an actress and stand-up comic. She is best known for her
play The Waiting Room (1994), in which three women from different time
periods meet in a modern doctor's waiting room, each suffering from
the effects of their various societies' cosmetic body modification
practices (foot binding, corsetry, and breast implantation). She also
co-wrote the screenplay for the film Girl Interrupted. Many of her
plays deal with the experiences of Latinx and immigrant characters.
Others deal with social and political issues through the lens of
contemporary family life. Beyond that, Loomer's play The Waiting Room
discusses issues such as body image, breast cancer, and non-Western
medicine.Lisa Loomer was born in New York and moved to Mexico with her
family in her late teens. Loomer studied theatre at Brandeis
University and New York University's Tisch School of the Arts.Loomer
is married to composer and painter Joe Romano; they have one son,
Marcello.She is of Spanish and Romanian ancestry.
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