Lisa Dwan

Lisa Dwan commenced her artistic formation through ballet training, winning a scholarship at age fourteen to the Dorothy Stevens School of Ballet in Leeds and dancing with the London Lewis Ballet Company; she transitioned into acting during adolescence. Her stage work includes intensive engagement with Samuel Beckett’s texts, followed by international tours of The Beckett Trilogy. She developed a one-woman adaptation, No’s Knife, staged at the Old Vic and Abbey Theatre. Dwan expanded her stage repertoire to works by Pinter and Carr, and transitioned into television with roles in Bloodlands. Parallel to performance, she has lectured and taught on theatre and Beckett at institutions including Oxford, MIT, and Princeton, and held residencies with writers such as Colm Tóibín.