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Lois Anderson is a Canadian director, actor and deviser.

Life and career
Anderson is raised in Vancouver, BC, Canada. She has been working as an actor, deviser, director for over 20 years.A graduate of Cariboo Hill Secondary School, she started as a English literature student and shifted into Theater. Anderson attended University of British Columbia, achieving a BA (English Lit), BFA (Acting), and MFA (Directing). Anderson has worked with regional and independent theatre companies. She also taught in Simon Fraser University and University of British Columbia.

Lois Anderson was a co-founder of Cirque Poule, an original member of Leaky Heaven Circus, a co-creator on Neworld Theatre's first production Devil Box Cabaret, an original creator of The Flying Blind Collective (2011), an Artistic Associate with Runaway Moon and Leaky Heaven, as well as a leading player at Bard on The Beach for several seasons.

Her acting credits in Bard on the beach includes: Twelfth Night, The Taming of the Shrew(2012), All's Well That Ends Well, As You Like It, Measure for Measure(2013), King Lear, Much Ado About Nothing(2017).

She acted in Leaky Heaven Circus's production of A Streetcar Named Desire, Bonobo, Birthday Boy and Arts Club Theatre Company's production of Griffin and Sabine as Sabine(2006), Poster Boys(2008), The Penelopiad(2011).

She also acted in Electric Company's The Score (2000); Neworld Theatre's Crime and Punishment (2005); Boca Del Lupo's The Shoes That Were Danced to Pieces (2006); Ruby Slippers Theatre's Trout Stanley(2007); Solo Collective's Killjoy; LesSaintes's Bloody Cleanup, Queen of Hearts; Rumble's Soulless; and Caravan Farm Theatre's Caucasian Chalk Circle, The Passion, The Winter's Tale.

She has played the title role in: Wit, Shirley Valentine, Mother Courage, Salome.

Lois Anderson's directing works in Bard on the beach include Pericles(2016), Lysistrata(2018), The Taming of the Shrew(2019), Henry V (2020). She also directed Roughhouse Theatre's A Last Resort, Arts Club Theatre Company's My Granny The Goldfish(2010), The Unplugging (2012); Leaky Heaven Circus's Peter Panties with Stephen Hill. For Runaway Moon Theatre she has devised, acted in and/or directed The Winter’s Tale, Sparrows, Faerie Play, A Small Miracle.

Awards
Lois Anderson has achieved eight Jessie Richardson Awards. She also earned the Sydney Risk Emerging Director award as well as Two Critic’s Choice Awards.

Personal life
She and her husband have two daughters Anouska and Elena.

Reference
1.https://nac-cna.ca/en/bio/lois-anderson 2.https://www.burnabynow.com/entertainment/from-burnaby-to-bard-on-the-beach-1.410948