Lisa Rafaela Clair

(The Temps: Performer) Lisa is a performer, writer, and theater creator. She earned her B.A. from Bard College, and completed a professional apprenticeship with The Theater de la Jeune Lune, where she has continued to perform in over eight productions. In Minneapolis, Lisa worked with The Park Square Theater, Stages Theater Company, Ten Thousand Things Theater, The Children’s Theater Company, Red Eye Theater, MN Fringe Festival, The Mixed Blood Theater (The Clean House, honored with Outstanding Female Performance of 2007- Minneapolis Star Tribune). In 2005, she received the Rimon Society Norman Ackerberg Travel Study Grant for travel to Locarno, Switzerland to study physical comedy with Pierre Byland at the Burlesk Center. Twin City, City Pages named her a “Top Ten Performer of the Year” and “Artist of the Year- Playwright” for her original piece Jake-a-Dee Myer.