Lisa Kirk Colburn

Lisa began working in film production on the set of “The Execution’s Song” with Tommy Lee Jones in 1980.  Studying at UCLA,  Lisa has gone on to write eleven screenplays, many of them award winning.  Her first, “Clouds of Tragedy”, was a finalist in the Eugene O’Neil Playwrights competition in 1994.  The feature film, “The Journey” which Lisa co-wrote while working at the Sundance Lab was produced in 1997 starring Roshen Seth and won many national in international film festival awards, including “The Audience Award” at the Miami Film Festival.

Lisa produced and executive produced the feature length documentary, “Sacred Stage: The Mariinsky Theater” in 2005,  which portrays the survival of the Mariinsky Theater in St. Petersburg, Russia and it’s Artistic Director, Valery Gergiev. The film is distributed by First Run Features and EuroArts and premiered at the Kennedy Center in Washington DC and at Lincoln Center in New York City.  It has been seen all over the world.

Lisa’s latest feature documentary film, “Gottfried Helnwein And The Dreaming Child” takes place on stage and behind the scenes at the Israeli Opera House in Tel Aviv and tells the story of two artistic titans. Lisa directed, produced and executive produced the film and it is currently distributed by First Run Features and EuroArts.

Lisa has served on the Board of The Presidential Advisory Committee for the Arts/The Kennedy Center, the National Foundation for Advancement In The Arts/ Young Arts, the Metropolitan Opera Advisory Board, the Los Angeles Opera Board of Directors, the Byrd Hoffman Foundation/Watermill, the Colburn Foundation and the Board of Directors for the Colburn School in Los Angeles.  Lisa currently serves as a member of the Board of Directors for the International Documentary Association.

Lisa resides in Los Angeles, CA.