Lisa Marie Evans is a filmmaker, animator, and visual artist. Her feature film, In Her Words: 20th Century Lesbian Fiction, was the first film to win the Publishing Triangle’s Michele Karlsberg Leadership Award in 2020. Since April of 2022, the film has reached audiences across sixteen countries and five continents.

Evans was a keynote speaker at VIII Gendercom: the International Conference on Gender & Communication held in Viterbo, Italy in 2022. She received a grant from the US Embassy in Rome to support the 2024 International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia, and Transphobia and the advancement of the LGBTQI+ policies, including a screening of In Her Words at Sapienza University in Rome.

Evans received the 2024 Artists 360 award and was a 2021 recipient of the Arkansas Arts Council’s Fellowship in Cinematic Arts. She debuted an animation to accompany a bassoon performance by Lia Uribe of Fernando Fernández's Enredadas Alegrías at the 2023 International Double Reed Society conference in Bangkok, Thailand. Evans co-produced Beyond Belief: Three Stories of Faith in Action, part of a 2016 national initiative funded by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting in partnership with Kansas City PBS.

Over the past 20 years, Evans has mentored hundreds of multidisciplinary artists. Since 2020, she has overseen the distribution of over 1 million dollars to 215+ creatives. Currently, she is the Director of the Artists Creative Fund (ACF) with CACHE where she designs and leads ACF funding, project support and professional development programming for Tulsa, OK artists.