"Lisa Ramirez gives us an inside look into the complicated,

disturbing, often overrlooked world of mothers, nannies
and children.... Both brave and funny, Exit Cuckoo
deserves our attention". -Eve Ensler

"[A] funny, sad and satisfyingly complex one-woman show.
The issues are familiar: the nannies are heartbroken over being separated from their own children; the New York mothers, unhappy in their careers or trophy-wife roles, are heartbroken over missing milestones in their children's lives. But Ms. Ramirez brings fresh insight to the picture, smartly revealing the characters' interwoven fates and fortunes and distinctive personalities"
-Anita Gates, New York Times
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"There's only one animal out of all the species that dumps their own eggs in other birds nests and that, my dear, is the CUCKOO BIRD.  And the other birds, they raise little baby cuckoo as if it's their own!" 

- Esther, EXIT CUCKOO

Lisa Ramirez

(Actor/Playwright, Exit Cuckoo)

Originally from San Francisco, Lisa performed at many Bay Area Theatres including the Magic Theatre, Marin Theatre Company, Actor's Theatre of San Francisco, and Intersection for the Arts. She received Best Actress Awards from The Bay Area Critics Circle for her work as Shelly in Sam Shepard's Buried Child, Sarah in George Walker's Love and Anger and Janice in John Patrick Shanley's Italian-American Reconciliation. Lisa also received a Dramalogue Award for her portrayal of Maggie in Arthur Miller's After the Fall. In addition to acting, Lisa served as the Literary Director at Brava! for Women in the Arts.

In New York, Lisa has performed at Makor/92nd St. Y, the HERE Arts Center, The Ontological-Hysteric Theatre, New York Theatre Workshop and Studio 111. She was a Playwright in Residence with The New York Theatre Workshop (where she is a usual suspect) at Dartmouth College in August 2006. Lisa most recently wrote and performed in Company So-No-Go's Art of Memory that was named by The Village Voice "The highlight of the Incubator Series at the Ontological Theatre" in July 2007.

Lisa's solo play Exit Cuckoo has had readings at The Cornelia St. Café and at Makor/92nd St. Y. She was invited to perform Exit Cuckoo at the Feile-Na-Bealtine literary festival in Dingle, Ireland and at the famous Bewley's Café Theatre in Dublin. Exit Cuckoo was part of The Six Figures Theatre Company's Artists of Tomorrow Festival in November 2006. At the 2008 Midtown International Theatre Festival in New York, Exit Cuckoo was awarded Best Overall Performance of a Solo Show, and Lisa received the award for Outstanding Actor (Female) from The Talkin' Broadway 2008 Summer Theatre Festival Citations .

Colman Domingo

(Director, Exit Cuckoo)

Colman recently directed the critically acclaimed Off Broadway, Los Angeles and San Francisco premieres of Lisa B. Thompson's Single Black Female. He has directed for Tony Award winning regional theaters such as Berkeley Rep (Sundiata), San Francisco Mime Troupe (Yo! Youth Speaks), and companies such as Lincoln Center's Director's Lab, Magic Theater, African American Shakespeare Company, Theaterworks, Inquiline, Theater Rhinoceros, Campo Santo, Solo Mio Festival and Geva Theater/SUNY Brockport.

An actor, he recently starred on Broadway in the Tony Award winning musical Passing Strange and in the world premiere of Athol Fugard's Coming Home at the Long Wharf Theater. Mr. Domingo is the proud recipient of an Obie, Dramalogue, Dean Goodman, and a Bay Area Theater Critics Circle Award. As a playwright he has received commissions, fellowships and awards from New York Theater Workshop, New Professional Theater, San Francisco Foundation for the Arts, The March of Dimes, and Theater Bay Area.