Lisa Pearl Rosenbaum

Lisa Pearl Rosenbaum is a writer, dramaturg and Board member at The Braid, the Los Angeles based theater and arts company, where she also develops and moderates programs that give voice to diverse and compelling Jewish voices. Her award-winning novel, "A Day of Small Beginnings" (Little, Brown & Co, 2006), a multi-generational story of discovering a fantastical lost history in Poland, was inspired by family history including that of her in-laws, Polish Holocaust survivors. Commissioned to create a dramatic piece about the remarkable Israeli violin maker who restored string instruments that survived the Holocaust and brought their voices to the world through his renowned Violins of Hope project and concerts, she wrote "Stories from the Violins of Hope". Filmed during the pandemic, "Stories" found an international audience online. Performed by seven actors, without sets or costumes, and accompanied by musicians from the Los Angeles Jewish Symphony, it has been translated into Spanish and Portuguese and viewed in 15 Latin American countries. "Stories" also had a special screening at the United Nations through its Global Outreach Programme on the Holocaust and continues to be shown at a variety of venues. A full stage production of "Stories from the Violins of Hope," written with Ronda Spinak, Artistic Director of The Braid, was performed in 2023 at the Bondi Beach Pavilion Theatre in Sydney, Australia. The American premiere, renamed "The Violin Maker," was staged at the International City Theater in Long Beach California in 2025 and cited by local press as among the 25 best of Los Angeles theater in 2025. Lisa is a proud member of The Dramatists Guild. https://lisapearlrosenbaum.com/