Liza Balkan is a
Canadian actress, dancer, director, teacher and writer.
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Career
She received Toronto's Dora Mavor Moore Award
The Dora Mavor Moore Award (also known as the Dora Award) is an award presented annually by the Toronto Alliance for the Performing Arts which honours theatre, dance and opera productions in Toronto. Named after Dora Mavor Moore, who helped estab ...
for her performance in '' Still the Night'' ( Theatre Passe Muraille/ Tova Entertainment/Tapestry/National Tour).Sailor Moon
is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Naoko Takeuchi. It was originally serialized in Kodansha's ''shōjo'' manga magazine ''Nakayoshi'' from 1991 to 1997; the 52 individual chapters were published in 18 volumes. The seri ...
''.Atom Egoyan
Atom Egoyan (; hy, Աթոմ Եղոյեան, translit=Atom Yeghoyan; born July 19, 1960) is a Canadian filmmaker. He was part of a loosely-affiliated group of filmmakers to emerge in the 1980s from Toronto known as the Toronto New Wave. Egoyan m ...
's critically acclaimed drama ''Remember
Remember may refer to:
Film and television
* ''Remember?'', a 1939 film starring Robert Taylor and Greer Garson
* ''Remember'' (1926 film), an American silent drama film
* ''Remember'' (2015 film), a Canadian film by Atom Egoyan, starring Chris ...
'' (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
Persephone Theatre is a regional theatre company in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. The company was founded in 1974 by director Brian Richmond and sisters Janet Wright and Susan Wright and named after the Greek goddess Persephone. The first seaso ...
)
* ''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 Great Canadian Theatre Company (GCTC) is a professional theatre company based in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. It was established in 1975 by a group of professors and graduate students at Carleton University. Riding a wave of cultural nationalism, ...
)
* '' 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
is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Naoko Takeuchi. It was originally serialized in Kodansha's ''shōjo'' manga magazine ''Nakayoshi'' from 1991 to 1997; the 52 individual chapters were published in 18 volumes. The seri ...
'' (Sailor Mercury/Amy Mizuno)
See also
* List of Canadian actors
This is an alphabetical list of notable Canadian actors. Some may have dual nationalities, being born elsewhere.
A
*Graham Abbey
*Alistair Abell
* Alejandro Abellan
*Raymond Ablack
*Jared Abrahamson
*Aaron Abrams
* Rudwan Khalil Abubaker
* ...
* List of Canadian directors
The following is a list of Canadian film, television and theatre directors, in alphabetical order.
A
* Jennifer Abbott (documentary)
* Louise Abbott (documentary film)
* Sarah Abbott (film)
* Mark Achbar (film)
* Steve J. Adams (film)
* Pa ...
* List of people from Windsor, Ontario
References
External links
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* Official Web site
www.lizabalkan.com
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Canadian film actresses
Canadian stage actresses
Canadian television actresses
Canadian theatre directors
Canadian voice actresses
Dora Mavor Moore Award winners
Living people
University of Windsor faculty
21st-century Canadian actresses
20th-century births
Year of birth missing (living people)
Place of birth missing (living people)
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