Liza Balkan is a Dora Award winning Canadian actress, director, writer, teacher and dancer.

She received Toronto's Dora Mavor Moore Award for her performance in Still the Night (Theatre Passe Muraille/Tova Ent/Tapestry/National Tour). She is also known as the voice actress for Ami Mizuno

Sailor Mercury

, in Japan, is one of the central characters in the Sailor Moon metaseries. Her real name is , a genius schoolgirl who can transform into one of the series' specialized heroines, the Sailor Senshi....

 from the third and fourth seasons of the English adaptation of Sailor Moon

Sailor Moon

Sailor Moon, known as , is a media franchise created by manga artist Naoko Takeuchi. Fred Patten credits Takeuchi with popularizing the concept of a team of magical girls, and Paul Gravett credits the series with "revitalizing" the magical-girl genre itself...

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Balkan teaches at the University of Windsor

University of Windsor

The University of Windsor is a public comprehensive and research university in Windsor, Ontario, Canada. It is Canada's southernmost university. It has a student population of approximately 15,000 full-time and part-time undergraduate students and over 1000 graduate students...

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Directing credits

• Opera Brief's 6 & 7 (Tapestry New Opera)
• Skylight and Trying (Persephone Theatre
  Persephone Theatre
  Persephone Theatre, is a theatre company based in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. The theatre company was founded in 1974 by Janet and Susan Wright and named after the greek goddess Persephone. The first season performances were held at the Mendel Art Gallery, with the second season at the...
  
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• 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).

Performances

• Sylvia (Belfry Theatre)
• It's All True (GCTC)
• The Winter's Tale
  The Winter's Tale
  The Winter's Tale is a play by William Shakespeare, originally published in the First Folio of 1623. Although it was grouped among the comedies, some modern editors have relabelled the play as one of Shakespeare's late romances. Some critics, among them W. W...
  
   (National Arts Centre)
• The Stronger Variations (Theatre Rusticle/Harbourfront)
• Golda's Balcony (WJT)
• West Side Story (Kennedy Centre, Wash. DC)

Voice Roles

• Sailor Moon
  Sailor Moon
  Sailor Moon, known as , is a media franchise created by manga artist Naoko Takeuchi. Fred Patten credits Takeuchi with popularizing the concept of a team of magical girls, and Paul Gravett credits the series with "revitalizing" the magical-girl genre itself...
  
  (Sailor Mercury/Amy Mizuno)