Lisa Andrews, born in NYC, grew up in Michigan and moved back to New York to study acting at the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre. A graduate of Hunter College, she received an M.A. in English Literature and an M.F.A. in Poetry from NYU, where she taught in the Expository Writing Program, and took […]
Lisa Andrews
Lisa Andrews: Mother Love Song
Watch me, I am the living snake that sheds its skin. Watch this emerald sheath turn to grass. I go on forever. I am the green flash, quick as summer lightening. I am that fast. I am the cobra. Kiss me and your village will be saved. I am the boa constrictor that hangs in […]
Lisa Andrews: Some Things My Parents Said
Sometimes I think people kill themselves when things are at their best. Sex is like dynamite, it can explode in your face. When a man looks at a woman, he thinks of only one thing. If a man and a woman love each other very much, then God decides. Some women are very fertile, there’s […]
Lisa Andrews: Advantages of Watching a Movie from 1944 at 3:00 in the Afternoon
You have not been born; therefore, none of your friends are sick, dead or in trouble. If the movie ends, it can begin again. What you are watching has the illusion of a beginning, middle and end, but it’s really a loop. If the movie from 1944 is, say, two hours long, you know, in […]
Lisa Andrews
Lisa Andrews, born in NYC, grew up in Michigan and moved back to New York to study acting at the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre. A graduate of Hunter College, she received an M.A. in English Literature and an M.F.A. in Poetry from NYU, where she taught in the Expository Writing Program, and took […]