about larissa
Larissa Lury is a freelance director, an associate professor at New Mexico State University, a deviser, and a former acrobat.
She loves artwork and experiences that open her to new ways of looking at the world around her, and strives to create those kinds of experiences for others.
She’s directed and workshopped plays for companies including: Cherry Lane, The Playwrights’ Center, Urbanite, Dorset Theatre Festival, Portland Center Stage, Southern Rep, InterAct, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Clubbed Thumb, New Georges, Ma-Yi, New Jersey Rep, Keen Company’s Keen Teens, McCarter Theatre’s Youth Ink!, Curious Theatre Company, American Southwest Theatre Company, Lake Dillon, Passage Theatre, Abingdon/Small Pond, Leviathan Lab, and Prospect Theatre.
She was an inaugural recipient of the National Directors Fellowship (2015-16), an LMCC Process Space Resident (2017), a New Georges Audrey Resident (2016-17), and a Resident Director at Ensemble Studio Theatre (2008-09). She is a member of the Lincoln Center Theater Directors Lab, and a New Georges Affiliate Artist. She received a BS from Northwestern University and an MFA from UC San Diego.
The up-side of having her loved ones scattered around and far from her a lot of the time is that she has home-bases of a kind in Las Cruces, New York City, and Los Angeles.
photo above by Mike Simses