Lorraine Liscio
Lorraine Liscio (playwright) is a member of Pulse Ensemble Theater in NYC. Her most recent play Moving Bodies introduces audiences to 18th-century physicist Emilie du Châtelet as she challenges her lover Voltaire, the French Academy of Science, and the laws of motion. Christine de Pizan and Emilie du Châtelet are but two fascinating women featured in Dr. Liscio’s book Paris and Her Remarkable Women whom she has brought to life on stage. (A brief Italian detour led to her one-act, Gono Superiore, a Milan comedy.) Before coming to playwriting, Dr. Liscio taught at Boston College in the English Department where she published articles on literary figures such as Toni Morrison, Marilynne Robinson, and Nadine Gordimer. During her tenure as Director of Women’s Studies she worked with music professor Jeremiah McGrann to program annual concerts of music by women throughout the ages. She is pleased to have her play about Christine de Pizan read at the Nora Theatre in tandem with the Boston exhibit of medieval manuscripts at the Gardner, Houghton Library, and Boston College. One of those manuscripts came from Christine’s pen.