Lisa Smith

Founder & Co-Artistic Director

Lisa Smith is a theatre maker, director, actor and writer who has worked over the last 22 years in London, Melbourne, Townsville and on the Gold Coast; where she founded White Rabbit Theatre in 2012. Lisa is passionate about collaboration and creating new work for theatre; thus far with WRT she has developed new works including ‘The Grand’ by Victoria Carless (Director/Producer), which was subsequently published by PlayLab Australia, ‘Slide Night’ by Victoria Carless (Director/Actor) presented as part of Bleach* Festival, ‘Pocketful of Pebbles by Victoria Carless, Lisa Smith and Tammy Weller (Director/Co-writer) presented at HOTA Home of the Arts, and ‘Love Means Nothing in Tennis’ Various Playwrights (Director/Writer ‘More of a Jan’) presented at Dust Temple. Lisa led the WRT team in creating a new immersive puppetry work ‘Agnes & Earl’ for the 2018 Commonwealth Games cultural program, Festival 2018, and was also an Artist in Residence at Bleach* Festival in 2022 where she created a solo theatre work ‘A Heart Stops Beating’. She is currently one of the ArtKeepers at HOTA Home of the Arts where she is creating a large scale work for theatre called AWAKE with collaborator Vicky Falconer (Co-Artistic Director Hayes Theatre Sydney, ‘Once’ by Darlinghurst Theatre, Fringe Wives Club).