Lisa Kotin survived childhood by writing comedic skits about her family. And then forcing them to watch. Adolescence was spent as a teenage mime. She got her BFA in Dramatic Writing from NYU, then worked as an office temp by day and solo performer/filmmaker by night, playing all the East Village clubs including La Mama, The Pyramid Club, Dixon Place, Franklin Furnace and King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut.

Her solo show, TEMPORARY GIRL, about a dysfunctional office family seen through the eyes of the office temp, toured the US and UK, including extended runs in SF and Chicago, the Edinburgh Festival and London’s Riverside Studios and Soho Theater.

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​Lisa wrote, co-directed and starred in the feature film version of TEMPORARY GIRL, which Leonard Maltin called “Bright and original, with the definite ring of truth.”  Her memoir, MY CONFECTION: ODYSSEY OF A SUGAR ADDICT (Beacon Press) was a Library Journal Best Memoir of 2016, “A delicious morsel of memoir writing that will strike a chord with junk-food junkies and their clean-living counterparts.” She lives in Los Angeles where she performs and writes.