Liza Balkan

Liza Balkan
Occupation(s)	Actress, dancer, director, teacher and writer

Liza Balkan is a Canadian actress, dancer, director, teacher and writer.^[1]

Career

She received Toronto's Dora Mavor Moore Award for her performance in Still the Night (Theatre Passe Muraille/Tova Entertainment/Tapestry/National Tour).^[1] She is also known as the voice actress for Amy Mizuno from the third and fourth seasons of the English adaptation of Sailor Moon.^[2]

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.^[1]

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)

See also

References

^ ^a ^b ^c "Liza Balkan". University of Windsor. Retrieved 22 May 2011.
^ Hal Erickson, Hal (July 2005). Television Cartoon Shows: An Illustrated Encyclopedia, 1949 through 2003 (via Google Books). McFarland & Co. p. 705. ISBN 978-0-7864-2256-2. Retrieved 22 May 2011.

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Preceded by Karen Bernstein	Voice of Sailor Mercury Eps. 83 - 159	Succeeded by Kate Higgins

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