Lisa KAren Cox

Teaching: Moving Theatre Ecology Forward

A graduate of Concordia University's Interdisciplinary Studies program, Lisa Karen Cox is a theatre artist and an educator. She has had the pleasure of working for a wide variety of theatre companies (large and not so large) including: Quote Unquote Collective, Why Not Theatre, Spur-of-the-Moment Shakespeare, Headstrong, Dauntless City Theatre, Shakespeare in the Rough, Theatre Smash, Nightwood Theatre, National Arts Centre, The Stratford Festival of Canada and the Royal Shakespeare Company. Often playing men and other mythical creatures, Lisa is also a teacher, choreographer, dancer, and director in addition to being an actor and mother. Lisa Karen Cox relishes work that combines music, movement and heightened language to create rawfully honest performative experiences. In the current moment, she is striving to redirect her anger and sadness into initiating impactful action.