ANGELA

Director’s bio:

A third-generation Greenwich Village native, Lisa is an actress, vocalist, , award-winning playwright, filmmaker, and columnist.

With roots in the theater as an actress and a playwright, Lisa crossed over to television to select programming for the launch of HBO’s COMEDY CHANNEL. She wrote and produced numerous junkets there before moving to COMEDY CENTRAL where she wrote guest segments for comedian Allan Havey’s talk show Night After Night. Other TV production credits include, The Cosby Show, The Ellen Burstyn Show, The Dictator, CBS Movie of the Week, Top Cops, and Night Music with David Sanborn & Jools Holland.

In 2016, Lisa shifted gears to radio as Music Event Manager for Pocono 96.7’s Gary in the Morning Show, before moving on to host her own program It’s Your Thing with Lisa Ellex on WYLDfm.

Today, Lisa is a columnist, features writer, and contributing editor for PrimeCrush (a weekly publication focusing on friendship, love, sex, and all things mid-life). A film version of her one-act play examining Alzheimer’s dementia, The A-Word, starring Brian O’Halloran (Clerks, Clerks II, Clerks III), Angela Pietropinto (Welcome to The Dollhouse), and Diana Devlin is currently in post-production. ANGELA is Lisa’s first film.

When she’s not writing, Lisa enjoys singing in big bands and small jazz ensembles.

You can read and listen to some of Lisa’s work at: https://linktr.ee/MsEllex