Lisa Wright spent her childhood in large and draughty English vicarages and rectories in the Black Country, the Essex Marshes, a Dagenham housing estate and East Ham near to the Woolwich docks. There was very little money to run these huge old places, and wartime rations and coupons made life even more difficult, but her parents, J.O. and Margot worked marvels with practically nothing, and they were all happy, exciting and characterful homes. The one thing they all had in plenty, especially East Ham, was space.

Lisa trained as a Drama teacher at the Central School of Speech and Drama, at that time housed on the third floor of the Royal Albert Hall. In 1953 she set off to America to teach in Connecticut for nearly three years.

She married Martin in 1957 and they had five children.

She was a drama teacher for 35 years mostly in large inner city comprehensives, where she wrote and directed large scale shows with elastic casts.

She started on her second career in middle age as one of the first women priests in the Church of England, still continuing to write shows, though now for parishes and diocesan activities.

Now she has embarked on a third career, as writer and performer of one woman shows.

Lisa and Martin live in South London.  

Lisa Wright spent her childhood in large and draughty English vicarages and rectories in the Black Country, the Essex Marshes, a Dagenham housing estate and East Ham near to the Woolwich docks. There was very little money to run these huge old places, and wartime rations and coupons made life even more difficult, but her parents, J.O. and Margot worked marvels with practically nothing, and they were all happy, exciting and characterful homes. The one thing they all had in plenty, especially East Ham, was space.

Lisa trained as a Drama teacher at the Central School of Speech and Drama, at that time housed on the third floor of the Royal Albert Hall. In 1953 she set off to America to teach in Connecticut for nearly three years.

She married Martin in 1957 and they had five children.

She was a drama teacher for 35 years mostly in large inner city comprehensives, where she wrote and directed large scale shows with elastic casts.

She started on her second career in middle age as one of the first women priests in the Church of England, still continuing to write shows, though now for parishes and diocesan activities.

Now she has embarked on a third career, as writer and performer of one woman shows.

Lisa and Martin live in South London.  

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