Reisman spent her childhood in Manhattan and Massachusetts and attended Vassar college with a degree in drama.
[2] Reisman designed the lighting for shows both on and off-broadway as well as for ballet and opera companies around the world.
[3] Reisman and her husband, Neil Peter Jampolis, collaborated on the Tony-nominated lighting design for the Broadway musical Black and Blue.
[5] Reisman and her husband founded a trust in 2003 that stipulated their home on the shores of the Minas Basin to be left to a non-profit organization that would use it as a retreat for writers and artists.
- November 1993[18] Beauty's Daughter - Opened January 25, 1995[19] Saint Lucy's Eyes - Opened March 28, 2001[20] Cornet Christoph Rilke's Song of Love and Death (Manhattan School of Music) - December 1990[21] The Postman Always Rings Twice (Boston Lyric Theatre) - March 1994[22] Turn of the Screw (Manhattan School of Music) - April 1994[23]