Beth Lisick (born December 13, 1968, in Saratoga, California) is an American writer, performer, and author of six books. With Arline Klatte, she co-founded the Porchlight Storytelling Series of spoken word performances in San Francisco in 2002. Her spoken word performances were featured at the Lollapalooza festival, the South by Southwest Music Festival, Bumbershoot, and Lilith Fair. She has toured with Sister Spit. She has also performed sketch comedy with the group White Noise Radio Theatre at SF Sketchfest and has an ongoing film and stage collaboration with Tara Jepsen. The pair wrote and acted in an original web series entitled "Rods and Cones", which was named one of Indiewire's 25 Best Series/Creators of 2014.
In 2009, she appeared in the film Everything Strange and New, directed by award-winning American filmmaker Frazer Bradshaw. The film screened at numerous festivals including Sundance Film Festival, Munich Film Festival, Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, and the San Francisco International Film Festival, where it won the FIPRESCI Award.
In 2011, she received a grant from the Creative Work Fund to collaborate on a book project with Creativity Explored. The result is a ten-part series of chapbooks entitled Tell You What.
Lisick is married to recording engineer and producer Eli Crews. Together they have one child, Gus.
Bibliography Monkey Girl, Manic D Press (1997) This Too Can Be Yours, Manic D Press (2001) — winner of the 2002 Firecracker Alternative Book Award for Fiction Everybody Into the Pool: True Tales, HarperCollins/ReganBooks (2005) Helping Me Help Myself: One Skeptic, Ten Self-Help Gurus, and a Year on the Brink of the Comfort Zone (2008) Yokohama Threeway (2013) Edie on the Green Screen (2020)
Anthologies Best American Poetry. James Tate, ed. (1997) The Post-It Note Diaries. Arthur Jones, illustrator.(2011) The Speed Chronicles, Akashic. Joseph Mattson, ed. (2011) Yes Is the Answer, Rare Bird Books. Marc Weingarten, Tyson Cornell, eds. (2013) Santa Cruz Noir, Akashic. Susie Bright, ed. (2018)
Filmography + List of film roles Year Title Role Notes 1999 Spectres of the Spectrum Voice of Boo Boo directed by Craig Baldwin 2002 Compulsory Breathing Woman short film directed by David Munro 2003 The Rest of the World short film directed by Frazer Bradshaw 2005 24/7 Cookie Feltcher video short 2005 Diving for Pearls Carole Murphy co-directed by Beth and Tara Jepsen 2009 Everything Strange and New Reneé directed by Frazer Bradshaw 2010 Sinking State Bernadette short film directed by Frazer Bradshaw 2011 Treatment DebraFeature film directed by Sean Nelson and Steven Schardt 2013 Redemption Trail Larraine Feature film directed by Britta Sjogren 2013 Tick Tock for Ding Dongs Carole Murphy short film directed by Beth and Tara Jepsen 2013 Food Coma short film 2013 Stepsister Beth short film directed by Joey Izzo 2014 Rods and Cones Carole Murphy web series written/directed/starred in by Beth and Tara Jepsen 2014 My Daughter's Boyfriend Beth Martinson short film directed by Joey Izzo 2015 Transparent Shopkeeper Amazon TV series. Episode directed by Joey Soloway 2016 Pushing Dead Receptionist feature film directed by Tom E. Brown 2016 I Was There Too Beth short film directed by Joey Izzo 2018 Send Me Woman No Age music video directed by Jonn Herschend 2019 Director's Commentary Lisa short film directed by Jonn Herschend
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