LISA ZENO CHURGIN most recently received an Academy Award nomination for "The Cider House Rules." Her additional credits include "200 Cigarettes," "Gattaca," "Dead Man Walking," "Unstrung Heroes," "Reality Bites," "Bob Roberts," "Closetland," "Love at Large" and two episodes of Tom Hanks' HBO series "From the Earth to the Moon."
Born and raised in New Jersey, Churgin graduated from Oberlin College with a Bachelor of Arts in English. She then moved to New York where she started her editing career as an assistant to Susan Morse on "The Warriors." She was then an assistant editor on "Raging Bull."
Churgin left the film business from 1982-1984 to earn her MBA from Columbia University.
