Liza Balkan is a Canadian Theatre Artist, Director, Educator, Writer and Actor
Career
She received Toronto's Dora Mavor Moore Award for her performance in Still the Night (Theatre Passe Muraille/Tova Entertainment/Tapestry/National Tour). She is also known as the voice actress for Amy Mizuno from the third and fourth seasons of the English adaptation of Sailor Moon.
On the silver screen, she had a role in Asghar Massombagi's Khaled (2001) and appeared in Atom Egoyan's critically acclaimed drama Remember (2015), portraying the daughter-in-law of Christopher Plummer's protagonist in the latter.
Balkan teaches at the University of Windsor, located in Windsor, Ontario.
Directing credits
Opera Brief's 6 & 7 (Tapestry New Opera Works)
Skylight and Trying (Persephone Theatre)
Half an Hour (Shaw Festival Director's Project)
Bunnicula (Theatre Athena)
Orchids (Marquis Ent.)
Good Woman of Setzuan
Enemies (premiere, Ryerson Theatre School )
Pavlov's Brother (Toronto Fringe Festival)
Performances
Sylvia (Belfry Theatre)
It's All True (Great Canadian Theatre Company)
The Winter's Tale (National Arts Centre)
The Stronger Variations (Theatre Rusticle/Harbourfront)
Golda's Balcony (Winnipeg Jewish Theatre)
West Side Story (Kennedy Center, Washington, D.C.)
Voice roles
Sailor Moon (Sailor Mercury/Amy Mizuno)
