Lisa Scheps' Ground Floor Theatre

The tireless advocate for the underserved has built a home for their stories

"...lights come up, and onto the playing space steps Lisa Scheps. Classy and a bit sassy, this woman of..."

Dec. 18, 2015 Arts Feature by Jenn Lewis

Ground Floor Theatre's Long Comeback

With Gibberish Mostly, Lisa Scheps' company makes its long-awaited return to the stage scene

"...Four months. That's how long Lisa Scheps expected it would take to resolve the code..."

Sept. 22, 2017 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Ground Plan

Lisa Scheps' Christmas gift to the local stage scene is a new performance venue, Ground Floor Theatre

"...Not Lisa Scheps. Best known locally for her work in human..."

Nov. 28, 2014 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Dream Come True

Back home in Texas, Lisa Scheps finally gets her place to play!

"...Lisa Scheps has a dream. She started out as an..."

March 18, 2005 Arts Feature by Barry Pineo

Ground Floor Theatre's Fun Home

Lisa Scheps’ production is invested with a level of care that makes this musical memoir movingly familiar

"...groundbreaking, the keen attention to detail with which director Lisa Scheps approaches this dynamic is quite refreshing. Despite Middle..."

Dec. 14, 2018 Arts Review by Trey Gutierrez

The History of the LGBTQ Movement in Austin

From Stonewall to today, how Pride has progressed in our city

"...Ceci Gratias, Tesía Samara, Lauryn Paige Fuller, Steve Thomas, Lisa Davis, and all those we've lost along the way...."

Aug. 9, 2019 News Feature by Beth Sullivan

Anatomy of an Understanding

How an unfortunate fitting room encounter brought Petticoat Fair to a session called 'Trans 101'

"...When Lisa Scheps, a founder of the Trans­gender Education Network of..."

Aug. 1, 2014 News Feature by Kate X Messer

2016 Long Fringe Canceled

Permit issue leads FronteraFest to shut down part of festival

"...Long Fringe, Ground Floor Theatre. As that theatre's director, Lisa Scheps, describes the situation, a city inspection of the..."

Jan. 22, 2016 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Local Comedian Prepares New Show for CBS in Shuttered Venue

Laura de la Fuente gets in on the Ground Floor

"...time," says Patti Neff-Tiven, Ground Floor's co-artistic director (with Lisa Scheps). "But as things happened, we never really found..."

Nov. 20, 2020 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Kafka's Dick

Somewhere between Alan Bennett's strictly surface script and Lisa Scheps' direction, the Coda Project's production of Kafka's Dick falls flat

"...Project's production, which marks the farewell directing endeavor of Lisa Scheps, suffers from a lack of pacing and a..."

April 20, 2007 Arts Review by Hannah Kenah

Eastward (S)ho(w)!

The soon-to-be-built play! Theatre adds a seventh performing arts venue east of the interstate

"...Theatre Group, and it's new to town – founder Lisa Scheps moved here a year ago from Chicago after..."

July 2, 2004 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Lege Lines: Don’t Blame the Death Worm

The Texas House wants to kill off "film incentives"

"...bargaining chips in a late-night legislative poker game," said Lisa Scheps, interim director with the Transgender Education Network of..."

April 14, 2017 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

The Play About the Baby

Though the baby in Edward Albee's 'The Play About the Baby' may or may not exist, the play is funny and, in its evocation of a traumatic dream state, terribly, horribly frightening

"...director Kate Meehan, who helms this production. "We met Lisa Scheps [play!'s managing director], and she and I and..."

July 14, 2006 Arts Feature by Barry Pineo

Ground Floor Theatre’s Unexpected Joy

Sitcom sheen overwhelms this musical’s stage pleasures

"...Director and company founder Lisa Scheps tries hard to rein in some of the..."

Dec. 10, 2021 Arts Feature by Bob Abelman

The Play About the Baby

In the Coda Theater Project production of 'The Play About the Baby,' the actors deliver Edward Albee's brilliant and dreamlike play cleanly and clearly

"...Man and the Woman, played by Zac Crofford and Lisa Scheps. We are introduced first to the Man: a..."

Aug. 4, 2006 Arts Review by Barry Pineo

Played Out

After only a year and just two productions, play! Theatre Group has sold its building at East 12th and Cedar and cancelled all future productions

"...at East 12th and Cedar. Last July, Artistic Director Lisa Scheps announced the purchase of the former Kingdom Hall..."

July 22, 2005 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Transgender Day of Remembrance

"...could say things have changed, but they haven't," says Lisa Scheps, an ex officio board member of Transgender Education..."

Nov. 21, 2014 News Feature by Sarah Marloff

2019 B. Iden Payne Award Winners

Five shows share top honors with four awards each

"...the outstanding production prize, along with awards for director Lisa Scheps and actors Mariela Denson and Sarah Marie Curry;..."

Nov. 6, 2019 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Who Really Needs 'Sensitivity Training'?

"...logical to me. Lastly, there's the ignorant comment of Lisa Scheps of the Transgender Education Network of Texas, who..."

July 31, 2014 Postmarks

Amplify Austin Is Needed Now, More Than Ever

This annual fundraising program amplifies the arts

"...sure that Ground Floor Theatre comes through this," vows Lisa Scheps, leader of that creative Eastside powerhouse, "so that..."

March 5, 2021 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Is FronteraFest Even Half Human?

Two local brothers deck the Long Fringe walls at Ground Floor Theatre

"...by to say hello to Ground Floor Theatre’s award-winning Lisa Scheps or Patti Neff-Tiven...."

Jan. 23, 2020 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Ground Floor Theatre and Deaf Austin Theatre's Next to Normal

In this collaboration between the two companies, having signing actors and speaking actors perform side by side provides a uniquely engaging experience

"...GFT founder Lisa Scheps and DAT director Brian Cheslik here exhibit a..."

Dec. 13, 2019 Arts Review by Trey Gutierrez

Ground Floor Theatre’s Gibberish Mostly

This production of Max Langert’s brave play breaks the silence about autism and the stigma and shame surrounding it

"...The production, directed by Lisa Scheps (founder and co-director of Ground Floor Theatre), makes..."

Sept. 29, 2017 Arts Review by T. Lynn Mikeska

Gay Place: Grandma's Revenge

Rudolph was framed!

"...by Alfred Uhry, and directed by our irrepressibly fabulous Lisa Scheps. Thu.-Sat., Dec. 3-5, 8-11pm. Ground Floor Theatre, 979..."

Dec. 4, 2015 Column by Kate X Messer

9x9x9

In Randy Wyatt's '9x9x9,' Coda Theater Project offers a kooky thought piece on life / death and the power of God, but a lack of clarity in presentation undercuts some of the fun

"...Mance) has taken to drinking with transcendental junkie Minerva (Lisa Scheps). To top it all off, a man dressed..."

May 5, 2006 Arts Review by Heather Barfield Cole

Freud's Last Session Opens in Austin

Actor David Jarrott turns producer to get a drama about Freud and C.S. Lewis onstage in Austin

"...June he "leapt into the fray," as he told Lisa Scheps on the KOOP radio program Off Stage and..."

Sept. 25, 2015 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The State of Trans Health Care

Gender affirming care in Austin is improving. But by how much? And how far must it still go?

"...In 2002, with Paula Buls, Lisa Scheps, and several other community organizers, Westbrook co-founded the..."

April 14, 2017 News Feature by Sarah Marloff

A Sweet & Fitting Memorial

Honored with a memorial fund in her name, trans- and feminist activist Beth Westbrook would be proud.

"...According to TACT founding member, Lisa Scheps, "Beth was an incredible force in our community...."

July 7, 2008 Qmmunity Post by Kate X Messer

Five Things to Relish About the Stage Over Thanksgiving

Plan your theatrical December

"...together where ch-ch-ch-ch-changes are in the air. Directed by Lisa Scheps for Ground Floor Theatre, with in-person performances and..."

Nov. 26, 2021 Arts Column by Wayne Alan Brenner

Qmmunity: The Queer Stories That Made 2019

Looking back, enjoying gelato, and the return of Middle School Dance Party

"...Next to Normal Directed by Lisa Scheps and Brian Cheslik. This production is fully deaf-inclusive...."

Dec. 20, 2019 Column by Sarah Marloff

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