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Beth Lisick
American author and actress From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Beth Lisick (born December 13, 1968, in Saratoga, California) is an American writer, performer, and author of six books. With Arline Klatte, she co-founded the Porchlight Storytelling Series[1] of spoken word performances in San Francisco in 2002.[2][3] Her spoken word performances were featured at the Lollapalooza festival, the South by Southwest Music Festival, Bumbershoot, and Lilith Fair.[4] She has toured with Sister Spit. She has also performed sketch comedy with the group White Noise Radio Theatre[5] at SF Sketchfest and has an ongoing film and stage collaboration with Tara Jepsen.[6] The pair wrote and acted in an original web series entitled "Rods and Cones", which was named one of Indiewire's 25 Best Series/Creators of 2014.
In 2009, she appeared in the film Everything Strange and New, directed by award-winning American filmmaker Frazer Bradshaw. The film screened at numerous festivals including Sundance Film Festival,[7] Munich Film Festival, Karlovy Vary International Film Festival,[8] and the San Francisco International Film Festival,[9] where it won the FIPRESCI Award.
In 2011, she received a grant from the Creative Work Fund to collaborate on a book project with Creativity Explored. The result is a ten-part series of chapbooks entitled Tell You What.
Lisick is married to recording engineer and producer Eli Crews. Together they have one child, Gus.[10]
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Bibliography
- Monkey Girl, Manic D Press (1997) ISBN 0-916397-49-1
- This Too Can Be Yours, Manic D Press (2001) ISBN 0-916397-73-4 — winner of the 2002 Firecracker Alternative Book Award for Fiction[11]
- Everybody Into the Pool: True Tales, HarperCollins/ReganBooks (2005) ISBN 0-06-083426-9
- Helping Me Help Myself: One Skeptic, Ten Self-Help Gurus, and a Year on the Brink of the Comfort Zone (2008) ISBN 0-06-114396-0
- Yokohama Threeway (2013) ISBN 9780872866256
- Edie on the Green Screen (2020) ISBN 978-1-7333672-0-2
Anthologies
- Santa Cruz Noir, Akashic. Susie Bright, ed. (2018) ISBN 9781617756474
- Yes Is the Answer, Rare Bird Books. Marc Weingarten, Tyson Cornell, eds. ISBN 0985490209
- The Speed Chronicles, Akashic. Joseph Mattson, ed. (2011) ISBN 161775028X
- The Post-It Note Diaries. Arthur Jones, illustrator.(2011) ISBN 0452296978
- Best American Poetry. James Tate, ed. (1997) ISBN 0684814528
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