Author Profile:  Lisa Bansavage

Lisa Bansavage is an actress whose career comprises a multitude of Broadway, Off Broadway, regional theater, film, television, and national commercial credits, including a third of the full Shakespearean canon as well as a role opposite Sir Anthony Quayle in the BBC-London production of An Exchange of Gifts.  She is a graduate of Carnegie-Mellon University’s theater conservatory and holds a Master’s in Theatre from the University of Pittsburgh where she was a Merrill Fellow.  Her Shakespearean credits include performances with Great Lakes Shakespeare Festival, New Jersey Shakespeare Festival, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Three Rivers Shakespeare Festival, Riverside Shakespeare Festival, and the Triple T.  Theatre Company in a variety of roles:  Titania in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Kate in The Taming of the Shrew, Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing, Desdemona, Emilia, and Bianca in Othello, Portia in The Merchant of Venice, Celia in As You Like It, Lady Capulet, Lady Montague, and The Nurse in Romeo and Juliet, Mistress Quickly in Henry IV Part I, Elizabeth in Richard III and Viola in Twelfth Night.