Lisa is a world-building director and filmmaker known for eliciting deep performances from actors and telling emotionally powerful stories.

She leverages arresting visuals and psychology to excavate true yet unexpected insights into the human condition.
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Lisa has written and directed two award-winning feature films. Claire in Motion, starring Betsy Brandt (Breaking Bad), premiered at SXSW in 2016 and was praised by The LA Times as “a quietly affecting psychological mystery.” Small, Beautifully Moving Parts, starring Anna Margaret Hollyman (Gayby) and Andre Holland (Moonlight), premiered at SXSW in 2011. Roger Ebert deemed the film "effortlessly engaging" and it earned Critic's Pick at Time-Out and New York Magazine. Her short films Hollow and Head Stand have screened at premier festivals including Cannes, Tribeca, and Telluride.
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An alumna of the NBC Female Forward program, Lisa has since garnered acclaim for elevating actors’ performances and dynamic action sequences. She has worked with talents like James Spader in Blacklist and Michael Sheen in Prodigal Son. Recently, Lisa directed an episode of The Missing, the Peacock limited series from executive producers David E. Kelley and Barry Levison, and the Season 9 finale of Chicago Fire.
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Lisa was raised and educated on both coasts. While earning her BA in film studies at UC Berkeley, Lisa worked on the visual effects of legendary films like Jurassic Park as an apprentice editor at LucasFilms and encountered experimental high-art films working as a projectionist at the Pacific Film Archive. Her exposure to both classic Hollywood pictures and boundary-breaking film informs Lisa’s distinctive cinematic perspective to this day. She received her MFA from NYU's Film Directing Program.
Off set, Lisa is working on her next feature, an adaptation of Ken Kalfus’ short story “Night and Day You are the One”. She lives in New York City with her family.