Meet Cypherbird Projects Founder & Creative Director
Cypherbird Projects founder and Creative Director Lisa Wagner Erickson is a playwright, theatre artist, and occasional performer & singer whose varied experience includes singing at Red Rocks, performing sketch comedy at Boulder Theater, and plays that have been developed and produced across the United States.
A True West Award winner, she has also been a finalist for the Gary Garrison Award for 10-Minute Plays, a regional finalist for the KCACTF 10-Minute Play Award, a PlayPenn semi-finalist, and a Landing Theatre’s New American Voices semi-finalist.
From 2018 - 2022, she was the owner and Creative Director of Theater 29 , a Denver venue dedicated to original work by Colorado playwrights and multi-genre artists. Under her leadership, Theater 29 featured the work of over 46 Colorado creative artists, including 30 playwrights and theatre artists.
Lisa is an instructor at the Community College of Denver, where she has taught courses in playwriting and theater appreciation. She is also a playwriting instructor for Lighthouse Writers Workshop youth programs. She has been a guest artist at the Kennedy Center Playwriting Intensive and holds an MFA in Writing for Stage and Screen from Lesley University.
