TRIXIE

Liza Hunter
Associate Artist
Aries, Equestrian, Quintuple Threat
Skills: Flying, swinging, double, triple, and single trapeze; Tissu; Corde lisse/Spanish web; Fire-eating; Handbalancing/Partner acrobatics; Juggling; Trampoline
Education: BS Theater Performance, music minor graduate from Northern Michigan University
BFA Musical Theater Performance candidate from Western Michigan University
Background: By doing circus arts Liza was able to combine her years of training in dance, theater, singing, and sports into one expressive form. She's been fortunate to train with many amazing people over the years including Peter Gold, Arano Ortiz, and Elsie and Serenity Smith (she completed their professional track training program in 2007). Work outside of the Aerial Angels includes Club Med, Trapeze School New York and Boston, Trapeze Experience, Espana Streb Trapeze Academy, and I Fly, L.I. Theater credits include Footloose (Ariel), Company (Marta), A Chorus Line (Val), and The Rocky Horror Show (Janet), as well as many others.
Favourite Fruit: Close race between passionfruit and blueberries
Cat: Nope, one dog; her name is Gypsy
Fact: She surfed Lake Superior on New Years Day 2007