Lisa Collins earned her Masters in Screenwriting and Directing from Columbia University Film School, with a B.A. from Yale in American Studies/Photography. She wrote, directed and executive produced two shorts: Miss Ruby’s House, a mockumentary, and Tree Shade, a surreal black comedy that garnered the Gold Medal for Best Alternative Film at the Student Academy Awards, and was invited to festivals including: Sundance, Atlanta, Seattle, Newport, Avignon and Cannes. It headlined PBS’s “Reel New York” series; won several top fest prizes and a DGA award. She workshopped her script, The Grass Is Greener at the Sundance Screenwriters and Filmmakers Labs.