Lisa Marie took the helm of Theatre Direct as Executive Artistic Director in 2019. She is also the founder and lead advisor for Theatre Direct’s national initiative Balancing Act Canada which supports parents and caregivers in the performing arts. In 2023, Lisa served as co-Curator for JUNIOR at Harbourfront Centre – Canada’s largest international children’s festival. 

Lisa Marie is the founding Artistic Director of FIXT POINT, where she led the creation and production of The Tale of a Town – Canada. Between 2014-2017, this theatre and media project toured to every province and territory in Canada gathering more than 3,000 stories through interviews in over 200 communities resulting in the creation of over 30 site-specific performances developed in collaboration with local professional artists including presentations at Theatre Passe Muraille (ON), The Fredericton Playhouse (NB), The Northern Arts Cultural Centre (NT), The Yukon Arts Centre (YK), The Esplanade Arts and Heritage Centre (AB), The Arts and Culture Centres of Newfoundland and Labrador (NL), Curtain Razors Theatre (SK), Theatre NorthWest (BC), and Victoria Playhouse (PEI), among others. In 2016, Lisa Marie conceived and co-directed the inaugural season of Main Street Ontario, an animated series on TVO inspired by The Tale of a Town, now in its third season.

Devising and directing projects with FIXT POINT include The Tale of Harbourfront Centre (Fresh Ground Commission / World Stage), The Tale of a T-Shirt (Theatre Direct / Dora Award Nominations for Outstanding Direction and Best Ensemble), Four Corners (Theatre Passe Muraille / Beyond the Walls), as well as a 7-city Canadian Fringe tour, a stint at the Edinburgh Festival and performances in Graz, Vienna and at the Prague International Festival.

Other career highlights include director of The Keith Richards One Woman Show (Suitcase in Point / Dora Nomination for Best Touring Production), Associate Director for The Double (Bad New Days w Tarragon / 5 Dora Nominations), and years of improv comedy as a cast member in Tony n’ Tina’s Wedding at Second City.

Lisa Marie holds an MA from York University where she is currently a PhD candidate pursuing research in Performance Ethnography. She is a graduate of George Brown Theatre School and Ecole Philippe Gaulier in Paris, France where she studied clown, bouffon, neutral mask, character, shakespeare/chekov and melodrama. Past posts include Playwright-in-Residence at Theatre Passe Muraille, Associate Artistic Director at Jumblies Theatre, and Education & Audience Development Coordinator at Canadian Stage. Lisa Marie serves on the board of Smile Theatre, The Community Arts Guild in Scarborough and the The Toronto Alliance for the Performing Arts (TAPA) where she also sits on the Social Justice Committee. When she’s not doing theatre, Lisa Marie with her boys coaching Little League baseball or cheering on their rock band LEGO MONEY.