Lanny Harrison

Lanny Harrison began her career in the New York Pantomime Theater in 1966. She has played character roles in Off-Broadway musicals and films and, for the past 30 years, has written and performed one-woman shows, touring America and Europe. Her latest, “ISBA” was presented in New York City in 2008. She is currently at work on a show about her mother’s and godmother’s hitchhike across the US in 1929.  Lanny has collaborated with the late musician Collin Walcott, with Steve Clorfeine, Lily Pink and with Meredith Monk. She has been a member of The House, Monk’s company, since 1969. For the past eight years, she has been part of the Creative Process team at the ALIA Institute. Lanny teaches theater to children in upstate New York, in the Gallatin Division of New York University and at the New York Shambhala Center. She is a meditation instructor in the Shambhala tradition.