Lisa Soland graduated from Florida State University with a BFA in acting and received her Equity card working as an apprentice at the Burt Reynold's Jupiter Theatre. While there, she had the opportunity to work with playwright William Luce, starring as Zelda Fitzgerald in his world premiere play, LUCE WOMEN. With Charles Nelson Reilly directing, the experience deepened her love and appreciation for the theatre’s creative process in which both the playwright and the director are present during rehearsal, working together for the betterment of the play and its production. Little did she know that she, one day, would be the playwright.

After moving to Los Angeles, she wrote her first play THE NAME GAME, which received a yearlong writer's grant and was subsequently published by Samuel French, Inc. She starred in the world premiere opposite Richard Hatch from Battlestar Galactica, and the comedy ran for two months at The Tamarind Theatre in Hollywood. Thinking it a lark, she moved on to her next play and with eight nominations, she received the Artistic Director Achievement award for best original comedy for her play, HAPPY BIRTHDAY, BABY! Then her drama THE ReBIRTH won her the Hawthornden Fellowship, which took her to Edinburgh, Scotland, where she spent a month long international writer's retreat in William Drummond's medieval castle.

As her role of “playwright” increased in its demands, she accepted less and less acting roles. Yet one of her most memorable experiences was starring in the world premiere production of her romantic comedy, CABO SAN LUCAS, where Ms. Soland played the part of Grace, whose attempted suicide is thwarted by two house burglars. Back Stage West wrote, "Those tired of playing second fiddle to the showier male roles might take a page from the author of this one act, who wrote a meaty starring role for herself... a great role for women, by a woman." CABO SAN LUCAS received first prize in the 2004 Scriptwriting/Houston National Playwriting Contest and the American Theatre Co-op 2005 contest for one-act plays.

Lisa Soland’s play Waiting is published by Samuel French, Inc. and also included in Smith & Kraus’ anthology WOMEN PLAYWRIGHTS: THE BEST PLAYS OF 2003, and some of the monologues from Waiting and her play Cabo San Lucas are in BEST WOMEN’S STAGE MONOLOGUES OF 2003. Monologues from Ms. Soland’s The Rebirth, Red Roses as well as Waiting can be found in Applause Books’ ONE ON ONE: THE BEST WOMEN’S MONOLOGUES FOR THE 21ST CENTURY and ONE ON ONE: THE BEST MEN’S MONOLOGUES FOR THE 21ST CENTURY. What has become known as “the straw scene” (Act I, Scene 2) in Waiting, is published in DUO: THE BEST SCENES FOR THE 21ST CENTURY, also by Applause Books. Her other plays include The Name Game, also published by Samuel French, Inc., An Afternoon With Shirley, The Lord’s Last Supper, Thread Count, Rebound and the Bathtub and The Christmas Tree Angel.

Her ten-minute plays have received numerous productions and publications as well. An Earthquake, first directed by Charles Nelson Reilly, is included in Dramatic Publishing’s anthology 35 IN 10, Different is part of Smith & Kraus’ THE BEST TEN-MINUTE PLAYS OF 2005 (2 Actors), The Same Thing is in THE BEST TEN-MINUTE PLAYS OF 2006 (2 Actors) and Knots is in THE BEST TEN-MINUTE PLAYS OF 2006 (3 Actors).

For the fall of 2006, Ms. Soland returned to her alma mater, Florida State University, to head up the MFA Playwriting Program. She is a member of The Dramatists Guild of America, The Alliance of Los Angeles Playwrights and the International Centre for Women Playwrights. Ms. Soland founded one of Los Angeles’ premiere playwright workshops – THE ALL ORIGINAL PLAYWRIGHT WORKSHOP -- where she works as Artistic Director and teacher, helping to inspire countless original play readings and productions.