Liza Cox (she/her)
Leeds
Liza is a performer, designer and maker. She is co-artistic director of Baubo, a physical theatre company dedicated to creating high-octane physical theatre, rooted strongly in visual design and traditions of clown and bouffon. Baubo have been recipients of funding from the Arts Councils of Ireland and England, have been the recipients of a number of international residencies, and are currently creating a co-production with Footsbarn Travelling Theatre, which will tour in 2023. Liza was a participating artist in the Creative Europe Make A Move 2019 creation residence, and is part of an international team of artists selected to represent Europe in the UNIMA International World Puppetry Congress. Their work, DOUANE, was programmed in the 2021 World Puppetry Festival in Charleville-Mezières. She has worked with a number of established companies in Ireland and the UK, including THISISPOPBABY, Thingumajig Theatre, and Wild Rumpus.
Liza trained for two years in the Lecoq methodology and is currently completing an MA in Performance Design at the University of Leeds with a focus on expanded scenography. As a creator, Liza’s process is rooted in materiality and play, and the transformative potentialities of objects and the human body. Her work aims to explore the limits and boundaries between the body and the outer world.