ABOUT LISA
Australian made, Lisa has spent the greater part of the last decade building her skillset as an actor, writer and producer in beautiful Vancouver, Canada. The body of her work can be seen in the Leo Award-Winning Canadian comedy series, The Actress Diaries, which recently launched it’s third season.
The show’s second season was an Official Selection of Hollyweb Festival, Vancouver Web Festival and nominated for four Canadian Leo Awards, including an individual nomination for Best Female Performance (Web Series). As a Second City Chicago summer scholarship recipient and showrunner of The Actress Diaries, Lisa has pushed to sharpen her tools both in front and behind the camera, with an obvious big heart for the funny. More recently, she was nominated for Best Female Performance (Comedy) at the International Academy of Web Television Awards in Los Angeles, and Best Female Performance (Web Series) at the 2019 Leo Awards in British Columbia.
Lisa is fiercely driven to make a difference, make content that matters, to deliver art with meaning and entertainment with heart, to not only perform in but to create and facilitate content that promotes the good.
TRAINING
United States
Second City Chicago (Summer Scholarship) – Comedy Writing for TV & Film, Sketch and Improv
Advanced Acting for Film (Mike Lemon Casting) – Ongoing (3 months)
Second City Chicago (Comedy Spec Writing) – Caitlin Kunkel (8 weeks)
Canada
Advanced Acting from the Source with Shea Hampton (3 years)
Comedy Essentials with Tony Alcantar (8 weeks)
Advanced Improvisation with Tony Alcantar (8 weeks)
American Dialect with Tony Alcantar (8 weeks)
Acting for Camera with Linda Darlow (12 weeks)
Performers Mastery Intensive (Weekend)
Comedy Intensive with The Actors Foundry (Weekend)
Australia
National Institute of Dramatic Art – Screen Acting (8 weeks)
National Institute of Dramatic Art – Acting Foundations (Weekend Intensive)
Tom McSweeney – Scene Study (Weekend Intensive)
APPEARANCES
The Actress Diaries (Digital Series) – 3 Seasons
Training Wheels (Digital Series)
The Roommate (Short)
Inconceivable (Digital Series)
Sporty’s I want to be an Olympian (Sketch Series)
Sporty’s Sports News (Sketch Series)
Go Ballooning (Commercial)
Vancouver Web Festival (Sketch)
Untold Stories of the E.R (Television)
The Woop Woop Festival (Digital Series)
Richmond Auto Mall (Commercial)
Clearly Contacts (Commercial)
Shooting The Musical (Feature)
The Suitcase (Short)
Blue (Short)
AWARDS
International Academy of Web Television Awards: Best Female Performance (Comedy) – NOMINEE
Leo Awards: Best Female Performance (Web Series) – NOMINEE
LA Web Festival: Outstanding Performance by a Lead Actress (Comedy)
Second City: Summer Scholarship Recipient