Tennessee Williams Festival St. Louis Welcomes New Managing Director

The Tennessee Williams Festival St. Louis (TWSTL) enters its seventh season in 2022 by welcoming a new Managing Director, St. Louis native Lizi Watt.

Watt has spent the past 17 years in Boulder and Los Angeles, where she’s worked in numerous capacities in live theater, from director to producer to educator and performer. Watt’s wide-ranging background includes founding theatre companies, managing performing arts programs within educational institutions, freelance grant-writing and executive assistantship. She served as adjunct faculty at NYU, Rhodes College and Naropa University before teaching, directing and producing for six years at Marlborough School in Los Angeles.

Some of Watt’s performance credits include Alarm at Blue Roof Studios (LA), Daedalus’ Daughter at REDCAT (LA), Hamlet with Prison Performing Arts (featured on This American Life), Weetzie Bat at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, more than two years touring with Metro Theatre Company in the US and Taiwan, The Lysistrata Project (part of the Global Peace Initiative) and Big Love and Midsummer Night’s Dream with Boulder/Denver-based theatre, Band of Toughs. She is also the author of House of Daughters, It’s a Girl and mama, a solo performance piece.

“I welcome Lizi Watt with open arms as we continue our upward trajectory of enriching the performing arts in our community and beyond,” said Carrie Houk, Executive Artistic Director of TWSTL.

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