Lisa Biggs

Lisa Biggs, Ph.D., is an Africana and Performance Studies scholar, actress, and playwright whose research, creative work, and teaching investigate the role of performance in movements for social justice.

Her award-winning first book, The Healing Stage: Black Women, Incarceration, and the Art of Transformation (Ohio State University Press, 2022), records and theorizes the impact of theatre programs for women incarcerated in the U.S. and in South Africa.

An Associate Professor in the Department of Africana Studies/Rites and Reason Theatre at Brown University, Dr. Biggs teaches undergrad and graduate courses in African American theatre, carceral studies, and performane studies.