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Lise Friedman is the author, in collaboration with photographer Mary Dowdle, of the Junior Library Guild selection Becoming a Ballerina: A Nutcracker Story (Viking Children's Books), and coauthor, with her sister Ceil Friedman, of Letters to Juliet (Stewart Tabori & Chang), the inspiration behind the idea for the 2010 film of the same name. A former dancer with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, Lise is also the author of two Children's Book of the Month Club selections, First Lessons in Ballet and Break a Leg! The Kids Guide to Acting and Stagecraft (Workman Publishing), and of Alvin Ailey Dance Moves! A Dance-Based Approach to Movement and Exercise (STC).

She is an adjunct professor at New York University's Gallatin School and was editor of the award winning quarterly Dance Ink and the dance writer for Microsoft's New York Sidewalk, a website focused on arts and culture. She has edited several books, including John Gruen's People Who Dance and, with David R. White and Tia Tibbets Levinson, Poor Dancer's Almanac: Managing Life and Work in the Performing Arts, and, as editorial director of Access Press, Inc., a series of international travel guides. She lives in New York City.

Lise Friedman is the author, in collaboration with photographer Mary Dowdle, of the Junior Library Guild selection Becoming a Ballerina: A Nutcracker Story (Viking Children's Books), and coauthor, with her sister Ceil Friedman, of Letters to Juliet (Stewart Tabori & Chang), the inspiration behind the idea for the 2010 film of the same name. A former dancer with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company,... More