Recently Lissa Moira passed away. Her memorial will be at Theater for the New City on Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 8:30 PM, Johnson Theater.
About Lissa Moira
Lissa Moira is a playwright, screenwriter, director, artist and poet. She is two-time Jerome Foundation grantee and an OOBR Award-winning actress. In 2025, she received an Acker Award, which is presented to NYC residents who have made unique and under-recognized cultural contributions to their communities. In her long and varied career, she has directed everything from Sophocles to Shakespeare to Lanford Wilson. She has written and been produced in a wide variety of genres as well.
In recent seasons, she has directed a succession of musicals at TNC. These include “Rappaccini’s Daughter” by Michael Cohen, an opera based on Nathaniel Hawthorne’s short story; “Who Murdered Love?” a sold-out, critically-praised Dadaist musical comedy that she wrote with Richard West; “Bliss Street,” an Indie Rock musical set in New York’s decade of punk, glam and glitter rock; “The Boy Who Listened To Paintings,” based on a memoir by visual artist/poet Dean Kostos; “Woman on a Ledge,” an autobiographical work by harpist Rita Costanzi, and “Café Resistance” by Roberto Monticello, a harrowing and heroic story of the WWII French Resistance highlighting the power of defiance in the face of oppression. She last directed the production of “Sima” and was advisor to the production of “E.G.” , January 2026.
Ms. Moira writes, “I wish to thank Crystal Field for her unwavering support and her abiding faith in me as a writer and director, and for maintaining TNC as a haven for artistic freedom.” More info: https://www.broadwayworld.com/people/Lissa-Moira/