Lisa Rafferty

Lisa Rafferty is a director, playwright and producer known in the Boston area for helming plays and musicals at various theater companies and for producing the Elliot Norton Awards. She co-created Finish Line, a documentary play about the 2013 Boston Marathon, with Joey Frangieh (world premiere at the Shubert Theatre in Boston in March 2017).

Her comedies about motherhood – The MOMologues 1, 2 and 3 – were written as therapy with Stefanie Cloutier and Sheila Eppolito, beginning with the early days of becoming a parent and continuing through to the empty nest. They have appeared around the U.S. and the world. Finding the funny also motivated her to write a comedy about breast cancer with two other survivors: Pink Ribbon Overdose.

Her essays have appeared in The Boston Globe and The New York Times. Three of her latest documentary plays are about empowering and supporting women: SHE DID ALL THAT - Betty Ford: Speaking Out, Saving Lives; FEEDING SISTERS: The Voices of Women's Lunch Place and NO MORE SECRETS: Healing from Domestic Violence. She is honored to be telling the story of a 9/11 hero in THE LEGACY OF WELLES REMY CROWTHER: The Man in the Red Bandanna.

Lisa teaches theater at Bridgewater State University and is a proud member of the Dramatists Guild and the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society.