Stageplays

Angels and Infidels

The 1850 First National Women's Rights Convention. Equity Stage Production Writer /Director Louisa Burns-Bisogno.

"Successfully writing and staging a dramatization of events can be a devil of a matter to get right...But writer/director Louisa Burns-Bisogno is right on target...convincing...and inspiring."

Richard Duckett, Telegram & Gazette. (New England Newspaper of the Year - 2000)

Winner "Visions Award" - Worcester Women's History Project- 2000
Produced at Mechanics Hall, Worcester, MA

Love Signs


Written By Tom Bisogno and Louisa Burns-Bisogno

Some hear…some are deaf in this comedic love story. But does anyone really listen in this upbeat story about finding the self and choosing a love-mate despite communication challenges .


Honoring Deaf Month – Liason: Mary Burns Rogers

Produced at Hillsborough College, Plant City, Florida


Two Nights Near Doolin

Written by Louisa Burns-Bisogno – Directed by Pam McDaniel (WCSU)

A happy night of Irish music, dance and camaraderie comes to an end when two strangers arrive at this family bar near the Cliffs of Moher. They’re searching for information on an American missing since the time of “The Troubles” twenty years before

Produced at Sherman Playhouse, Western Connecticut State University and

Ives Center – Summer Series


Golden Retriever

Written by Louisa Burns-Bisogno. Directed by Adam Demovsky Elmwood Playhouse, Nyack NY

Produced by Ellen Muir. Directed by Louisa Burns-Bisogno

National Academy of TV Arts & Sciences – New York Chapter

HBO “Arlene Dahl Play Reading Series”


The Secret Louisa

Written by Louisa Burns-Bisogno & Directed by Jeanne Glynn

A ground-breaking, deeply researched, exploration of the “real” Louisa May Alcott – not her creation in the classic “Little Women.” She was the core of her dysfunctional family becoming the breadwinner when her brilliant but abusive father took up residency with his mistress. Louisa’s unhappiness became mental illness when as a Civil War nurse she was given a mind-altering, mercury-based medication. Her childhood fantasies, the inspiration of her short stories, became terrifying confrontations with a phantom trying to force her into sex and marriage.

Sherman Playhouse, Sherman CT

Readings

TWO NIGHTS NEAR DOOLIN
Play by Louisa Burns Bisogno

Produced and Directed by Charlotte Moore

Irish Repertory Theater, NYC

SLEUTHHOUND

Film script by - Tom Bisogno

Produced by Ellen Muir. Directed by Alan Demovsky

National Academy of TV Arts & Sciences – New York Chapter

HBO “Arlene Dahl Play Reading Series.

THE LAKE CONTRACT

Film script written by - Carla Harrod Mann

& Louisa Burns-Bisogno

Produced by Ellen Muir. Directed by Louisa Burns-Bisogno

National Academy of TV Arts & Sciences – New York Chapter

HBO “Arlene Dahl Play Reading Series”


STAG HARBOR

Film script written by - Glenn Bisogno

National Academy of TV Arts & Sciences – New York Chapter

Produced by Ellen Muir. Directed by Alan Demovsky

HBO “Arlene Dahl Play Reading Series”


THE PHOTOPLAYERS

Stage Play by Louisa Burns-Bisogno

National Academy of TV Arts & Sciences – New York Chapter

Produced by Ellen Muir. Directed by Louisa Burns-Bisogno

HBO “Arlene Dahl Play Reading Series”

A light-hearted film about the first American production company to shoot on a location overseas. The Kalem Kompany set up their stage in bucolic Beaufort in the west of Ireland. Producer-director Sydnet Olcott and his crew were just curious “ducks out of water” filming romances for American audiences until he chose hot-button political topics. These taboo silent films were censored by the British..


THE SECRET LOUISA

Play by Louisa Burns-Bisogno

Trinity College, Dublin Ireland. - The Samuel Beckett Center


ANGELS & INFIDELS

Play written by – Louisa Burns-Bisogno

Produced by Ellen Muir. Directed by Louisa Burns-Bisogno

National Academy of TV Arts & Sciences – New York Chapter

HBO “Arlene Dahl Play Reading Series”

THE GOLDEN RIVET

Film script written by Louisa Burns-Bisogno

Produced by Ellen Muir. Directed by Louisa Burns-Bisogno

National Academy of TV Arts & Sciences – New York Chapter

NATAS at HBO “Arlene Dahl Play Reading Series”


SISTERS BY CHOICE

Co-created by Louisa Burns-Bisogno & Manuela Metri. Executive Producer & Head Writer- Louisa. Producer,
Director Manuela Metri.

Padre Productions & Meditteranean Productions, Rome, Italy

Sorella per Scelta tracks the comedic adventures of three estranged sisters. They inherit a seaside villa but must live there together for nine months. Only then they can sell it and get on with their lives. The question is –will they kill each other first.


THE MAPLE LEAF


Play – Written by Cynthia Larsen

Directed by Pam McDaniel

Produced by Ellen Muir & Louisa Burns-Bisogno

National Academy of TV Arts & Sciences – New York Chapter

HBO “Arlene Dahl Play Reading Series”


TWIN-SUN RIVER

Film - written by Shouhua Qi based on his novel.


Directed by Pam McDaniel

Produced by Ellen Muir and Louisa Burns Bisogno

When a young American Korean War POW chose to go to Red China at the time of the armistice to chase his "Walden" dream, he had no idea what he was getting himself into behind the "Bamboo Curtain".

National Academy of TV Arts & Sciences – New York Chapter

HBO “Arlene Dahl Play Reading Series”