LisaMarie
@lisamarie-rollins.bsky.social
Director. Writer. #NewPlay & script developer. Dramaturg. AfroPinay #BlackFeminist Professor. Live music lover. Shower singer. Theater Maker. #DirectorSteez #ReproJustice
Leads the IRIS LAB Residency & Incubator at UCSC
Leads the IRIS LAB Residency & Incubator at UCSC
TODAY! Nov 12th, 2025 3pm-430pm PST
SWANA TheaterMakers: Modeling Possibility & Resistance
Convo w Director, Arts Leader Torange Yeghiazarian & Director & Arts Leader Evren Odcikin
Live stream on @howlround.bsky.social Please join us at
#theatersky #menaTheater #theatreSky #newplays #irisLab
SWANA TheaterMakers: Modeling Possibility & Resistance
Convo w Director, Arts Leader Torange Yeghiazarian & Director & Arts Leader Evren Odcikin
Live stream on @howlround.bsky.social Please join us at
#theatersky #menaTheater #theatreSky #newplays #irisLab
MENA Theater Makers
Modeling Possibility and Resistance |An intergenerational conversation with playwright, director, and arts leader Torange Yeghiazarian and director, playwright, and arts leader Evren Odcikin.
howlround.com
November 12, 2025 at 5:41 PM
TODAY! Nov 12th, 2025 3pm-430pm PST
SWANA TheaterMakers: Modeling Possibility & Resistance
Convo w Director, Arts Leader Torange Yeghiazarian & Director & Arts Leader Evren Odcikin
Live stream on @howlround.bsky.social Please join us at
#theatersky #menaTheater #theatreSky #newplays #irisLab
SWANA TheaterMakers: Modeling Possibility & Resistance
Convo w Director, Arts Leader Torange Yeghiazarian & Director & Arts Leader Evren Odcikin
Live stream on @howlround.bsky.social Please join us at
#theatersky #menaTheater #theatreSky #newplays #irisLab
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This is what fighting for healthcare in America looks like.
Seniors in wheelchairs are demanding no cuts to Medicaid and they are getting arrested.
Nothing says ’Land of the free’ like cuffing grandma for defending healthcare!
Seniors in wheelchairs are demanding no cuts to Medicaid and they are getting arrested.
Nothing says ’Land of the free’ like cuffing grandma for defending healthcare!
June 26, 2025 at 7:19 PM
This is what fighting for healthcare in America looks like.
Seniors in wheelchairs are demanding no cuts to Medicaid and they are getting arrested.
Nothing says ’Land of the free’ like cuffing grandma for defending healthcare!
Seniors in wheelchairs are demanding no cuts to Medicaid and they are getting arrested.
Nothing says ’Land of the free’ like cuffing grandma for defending healthcare!
day 1 of summer school / Intro to Playwriting. I don't usually teach in the summer, but I need more down payment moneee babeee! ha! Also - so excited about this crop of 11 students. They are already engaged and excited. yay new plays and new playwrights!
June 24, 2025 at 7:12 PM
day 1 of summer school / Intro to Playwriting. I don't usually teach in the summer, but I need more down payment moneee babeee! ha! Also - so excited about this crop of 11 students. They are already engaged and excited. yay new plays and new playwrights!
My friend just reminded me to go fill up my gas tank. so I'm here reminding you to do it too, ASAP.
June 22, 2025 at 3:33 AM
My friend just reminded me to go fill up my gas tank. so I'm here reminding you to do it too, ASAP.
Watching Andor. all I have to say is so far is.... empire gonna empire. SIGH
June 18, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Watching Andor. all I have to say is so far is.... empire gonna empire. SIGH
packing packing packing. cleaning. packing. dumping. purging. giving shit away. aaaa
June 16, 2025 at 6:21 PM
packing packing packing. cleaning. packing. dumping. purging. giving shit away. aaaa
also in the middle of moving from SC mountains quiet to a busier neighborhood and a new space. trying to take it easy on myself right now. I cant do everything.
June 16, 2025 at 6:20 PM
also in the middle of moving from SC mountains quiet to a busier neighborhood and a new space. trying to take it easy on myself right now. I cant do everything.
have been managing high anxiety over these past few days, weeks months as the threats to 'just being' black and brown are heightened visibly. filled with imaginings about what we ARENT seeing. upping my walking and meditation. getting my head out of my phone. breathe. breathe.
June 16, 2025 at 6:19 PM
have been managing high anxiety over these past few days, weeks months as the threats to 'just being' black and brown are heightened visibly. filled with imaginings about what we ARENT seeing. upping my walking and meditation. getting my head out of my phone. breathe. breathe.
thinking about all the black and brown #adoptees growing up in white Evangelical christian families today. May they all be safe. May they all be kept from harm. May they all be at peace.
June 16, 2025 at 6:16 PM
thinking about all the black and brown #adoptees growing up in white Evangelical christian families today. May they all be safe. May they all be kept from harm. May they all be at peace.
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40 percent of the Dodgers fan base is Latino. The club has remained silent as brown-skinned people are targeted across Los Angeles. Dylan Hernández eviscerates the Dodgers clubhouse for its cowardice. www.latimes.com/sports/dodge...
Commentary: Cowardly Dodgers remain silent as ICE raids terrorize their fans
The Dodgers have declined to release a statement in support of their fans protesting ICE raids that have ripped apart families in Southern California.
www.latimes.com
June 16, 2025 at 6:03 PM
40 percent of the Dodgers fan base is Latino. The club has remained silent as brown-skinned people are targeted across Los Angeles. Dylan Hernández eviscerates the Dodgers clubhouse for its cowardice. www.latimes.com/sports/dodge...
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1/Alleged Minnesota assassin attended a Bible college that is a stronghold of the Christian Nationalist movement called the New Apostolic Reformation, where some leaders of Stop the Steal and Theobros also went. @kieraevebutler.bsky.social has the details: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Minnesota shooting suspect allegedly attended a bible college popular among Christian nationalists
Including several who were instrumental in the 2020 "Stop the Steal" campaign.
www.motherjones.com
June 16, 2025 at 5:59 PM
1/Alleged Minnesota assassin attended a Bible college that is a stronghold of the Christian Nationalist movement called the New Apostolic Reformation, where some leaders of Stop the Steal and Theobros also went. @kieraevebutler.bsky.social has the details: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
I'm honored to be seen and to write a new short for the 2nd Annual Contemporary Asian Theater Scene festival. #BLASIAN #AfroPinayRepresent I'm equally honored to be in the company of these wonderfully creative playwrights! yes! Come check us out Saturday, July 26, 2025, 7:30 PM at San Jose Stage!
CATS Presents the 2nd Annual AAPI Playwright Festival — CATS: Contemporary Asian Theater Scene
Join us for the 2nd Annual AAPI Playwright Festival—celebrating bold new works by Asian American voices through staged readings and community events.
www.catsasiantheaterscene.org
June 13, 2025 at 6:11 PM
I'm honored to be seen and to write a new short for the 2nd Annual Contemporary Asian Theater Scene festival. #BLASIAN #AfroPinayRepresent I'm equally honored to be in the company of these wonderfully creative playwrights! yes! Come check us out Saturday, July 26, 2025, 7:30 PM at San Jose Stage!
omg I'm like 15 minutes in watching FOREVER and I'm already weepy. aaaaa
May 28, 2025 at 5:42 AM
omg I'm like 15 minutes in watching FOREVER and I'm already weepy. aaaaa
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Today, I was denied access to seeing my constituent, Mr. Kilmar Abrego Garcia. If there is nothing to hide, cut the crap. Let his lawyer and I check on him.
May 26, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Today, I was denied access to seeing my constituent, Mr. Kilmar Abrego Garcia. If there is nothing to hide, cut the crap. Let his lawyer and I check on him.
grant writing or finish this scene in my play? I need the grant money to keep writing, but I need to finish this scene in order to get to the final draft, to get to the workshop. aaaaaaaa this is my 'day off'
May 26, 2025 at 10:29 PM
grant writing or finish this scene in my play? I need the grant money to keep writing, but I need to finish this scene in order to get to the final draft, to get to the workshop. aaaaaaaa this is my 'day off'
Coverage of the survey shared in the academic senate meeting on Wed: lookout.co/uc-santa-cru...
UCSC faculty survey describes ‘potential extinction-level event’ for programs, low morale due to budget cuts, poor admin communication
As budget woes afflict the UC Santa Cruz campus, a high-level faculty report points a finger at poor administration communication and planning. A campus spokesman denies "administrative error" as caus...
lookout.co
May 23, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Coverage of the survey shared in the academic senate meeting on Wed: lookout.co/uc-santa-cru...
whatthehellyoncye this is gonna go BAD
Everyone else...suffer
BREAKING: FDA says covid boosters now only for those over 65 or with preconditions. www.statnews.com/2025/05/20/f...
May 20, 2025 at 5:04 PM
whatthehellyoncye this is gonna go BAD
UC Faculty are also seeing changes to our "cybersecurity" privacy (ie access to our google drives and docs) and being asked to re-sign new agreements and "must comply with May 2025". To say we are concerned is an understatement
Every UC faculty member should be aware of this incident, especially now that we're facing changes to our faculty disciplinary processes for the second time in as many years.
May 20, 2025 at 5:03 PM
UC Faculty are also seeing changes to our "cybersecurity" privacy (ie access to our google drives and docs) and being asked to re-sign new agreements and "must comply with May 2025". To say we are concerned is an understatement
I Fiiiiiinally am getting a moment to go see SINNERS today. YES YES YES I know I'm the only black person in the world who hasnt seen it yet. I been dippin and dodging y'alls freakin SPOILERS for a month. #listenIbusy
May 20, 2025 at 4:59 PM
I Fiiiiiinally am getting a moment to go see SINNERS today. YES YES YES I know I'm the only black person in the world who hasnt seen it yet. I been dippin and dodging y'alls freakin SPOILERS for a month. #listenIbusy
lurking toward last 2 weeks of the quarter. just wrapped directing a reading for PlaywrightsFoundation in SF working w @realcatbrooks.bsky.social and an amazing team, also deep in tech for our student #NewPlayFestival, while still writing lectures for my theory class. my body is like - yeahhhh sooo
May 18, 2025 at 5:56 PM
lurking toward last 2 weeks of the quarter. just wrapped directing a reading for PlaywrightsFoundation in SF working w @realcatbrooks.bsky.social and an amazing team, also deep in tech for our student #NewPlayFestival, while still writing lectures for my theory class. my body is like - yeahhhh sooo
One pleasure of shaping the playwriting program at UCSC is I get to nurture #newplaywrights! This play won our endowed Dharma Grace Award. Chris Hernandez has written a wonderful play about 2 nonbinary cowboys going on an magical wild west adventure, THEM COWBOYS. 1 more show TODAY! #TheaterSky
May 18, 2025 at 5:47 PM
One pleasure of shaping the playwriting program at UCSC is I get to nurture #newplaywrights! This play won our endowed Dharma Grace Award. Chris Hernandez has written a wonderful play about 2 nonbinary cowboys going on an magical wild west adventure, THEM COWBOYS. 1 more show TODAY! #TheaterSky
If You’ve Lost NEA Grant Funding: Submit Your Appeal here.
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May 11, 2025 at 10:31 PM
If You’ve Lost NEA Grant Funding: Submit Your Appeal here.
Americans for the Arts www.americansforthearts.org/advocate/pro...
Americans for the Arts www.americansforthearts.org/advocate/pro...