About Us
Lively Productions
Lively Productions is a theater company founded by Lisa Siciliano and Allison Goldberg with the purpose of presenting new work and offering a creative outlet for emerging theater artists. In a time when theater is increasingly competitive and superficial, we hope to provide quality exposure and experience for playwrights, directors, and actors in intimate theaters across Manhattan, and we encourage industry professionals to attend our productions.
Our company focuses on the process of developing new plays and the art of collaborating as people. Our 'lively productions' celebrate the joy of making theater and living life.
Allison Goldberg
Allison Goldberg is a co-founder of Lively Productions and has performed in all of their Manhattan-based productions, including the award-winning 2008 New York International Fringe Festival hit Paper Dolls. Other credits include Revolution on the Roof (FringeNYC), Macbeth (OTE, Theater Row), Writers’ Colony (Fresh Fruit Festival), Cinderella’s Mice (Vital Theatre Company), and the Hoop Dee Doo Revue (Disney). She has also performed in several projects with Artistic New Directions. Additionally, Allison has worked for The Commercial Theater Institute and Above the Title Entertainment with Tony award-winning producer Jed Bernstein. Allison graduated cum laude from Yale University with degrees in Theater Studies and Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations and has been a proud member of Actors' Equity Association since 2006.
Learn more about Allison at www.allisongoldberg.com
Lisa Siciliano
Lisa Siciliano, co-founder, is an actress, director, writer, producer, and educator. For Lively Productions, Lisa has directed Everaftering by Greg Edwards and starred in Apples also by Greg. She has produced Everaftering and Other Tales, The Panda is Not My Friend cabaret, Paper Dolls by Patrick Huguenin, winner of the 2008 New York International Fringe Festival award for Outstanding Ensemble, Episcus and Edendus, and Apples. Since moving to the Windy City in the fall of 2008, Lisa has taught with Lifeline Theatre, American Theatre Company, ARCC Ballet, Emerald City Theatre, Lasalle Language Academy, the Swedish American Museum, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and with the Columbia College Summer Arts Camp. She also served as the Cleveland Coordinator for the national arts collective, SLIGHTLYaskew Theatre Company, and as the associate artistic director of the Cleveland Shakespeare Festival. Currently, Lisa is the Education Coordinator at Emerald City Theatre. As an actress in Chicago, she's worked with Stockyards Theatre Project (Three Card Memory), Hubris Productions (Red Noses), Rascal Children's Theatre (Tam Lin,Annalee Jones and the Meanie Jeanie), American Theatre Company (Big Shoulders Festival), and Point of Contention (The Wonder: A Woman Keeps a Secret). She graduated cum laude and with distinction in the theatre studies major from Yale University in 2005.
Learn more about Lisa at www.lisasiciliano.com
