JANI LAUZON
ACTRA/CAEA/AFM
Height: 5’4" Weight: 120 lbs.
Hair: Salt/Pepper Eyes: Brown
FILM/TELEVISION/RADIO
| The River you Step In | Actor | Dir: Jon Michaelson | Saving Hope | Dr. Leah Boyden | Dir: Jeff Woolnough | Cycle of Broken Grace | Paramedic | Dir: Tufford Kennedy | Elder Abuse | Principal | Dir: Allan Powell | By The Rapids | Ms. Lackey | Animation/BigSoulProd. | Dirge | Nurse Jen | Trouble Fish Films | *Windigo Tale | Lead | Dir: Armand Ruffo | Simmer, Garnish, Serve | Lead | Dir/Kara Stone | euthanasia | Lead | Amaize Inc. Entertainment | Bingo Road | Lead | CITY Vancouver/Keith Lawrence | Maggie’s Life | Lead | Masters Prods./Shannon Masters | Birth | Principal | CBC Radio | Taking Pulse | Principal | CBC/John Dorn | Ice Screams | Principal | CBC Radio/Gregory J. Sinclair | Code Name Eternity | Principal | Warner Bros/Bruce McDonald | Destiny Ridge (2 episodes) | Guest Star | Atlantis/M. Khan/L. Raskin | Campfire Stories | Host | TV Ontario/Gordon Bowess | Morningside: “Red Waves” | Principal | CBC Radio/Tom Anniko | Morningside: “Making the Warriors” | Principal | CBC Radio/James Roy | Conspiracy of Silence” | Principal | CBC TV/Francis Mankiewicz |
* Best Actress Award Dreamspeakers Film Festival, Best Actress American Indian Film Festival
THEATRE
| Julius Caesar | Cato, Trebonius | Groundling/Crow's Dir:Chris Abraham | The Winter's Tale | Paulina/Old Sheppard | SITR Dir:Sarah Kitz | The Orchard after Chekov | Charlie | Shaw Festival Dir:Ravi Jain | The Breathing Hole | Huumittuq/Panik | Stratford Fest Dir:Reneltta Arluk | Louis Riel | Elder | COC Dir:Peter Hinton | Apocalypsis | Elder | Luminato Dir:Lemi Ponfasio | Blood Wedding | Neighbour/Servant | Modern Times/Aluna Dir: Soheil Parsa | A Side of Dreams | Haisa | Paper Canoe Projects | King Lear | Cordelia/Fool | NAC Dir: Peter Hinton | The Rez Sisters | Pelija | Factory Theatre | Toute Comme Elle | Chorus | Necessary Angel/Luminato | St. Carmen of the Main | Kateri Butch | Canadian Stage/NAC Dir: Peter Hinton | Romeo and Juliet | Lady Capulet | Canadian Stage Dir: Vikki Anderson | Mother Courage | Yvette Pottier | NAC English Acting Co. | A Christmas Carol | Caroline Wilkons | NAC English Acting Co. | Death of a Chief | Marc Antony | NAC/Native Earth Performing Arts | The Only Good Indian | Tsianina Redfeather | Turtle Gals Performance Ensemble | Comedy of Errors | Amelia | Canadian Stage/Kelly Thornton | *Merchant of Venice | Shylock | Shakespeare in the Rough/Sanjay Talwar | *The Triple Truth | Various | Turtle Gals Performance Ensemble | The Art Show | Daphne Odjig | Native Earth/Paul Thompson | The Scrubbing Project | Branda | Native Earth/Turtle Gals/Factory | Collected Works of Billy the Kid | Selsa/various | Alberta Th. Projects/Kevin McKendrick | The Rez Sisters” | Annie Cook | Theatre Aquarius/Robert Rooney | Diva Ojibway” | Patsy (Diva) | Native Earth/Michele George | *Whale | Raven | YPT/Maja Ardal | Almighty Voice and His Wife | White Girl | GCTC/Lib Spry | Andromache | Andromache | Orange Dog Theatre/Ian Prinsloo | Son of Ayash | Various | Native Earth/Raoul Trujillo |
* Nominated for Dora Mavor Moore Award
SPECIAL SKILLS
Professional Singer, Professional Puppeteer, Most Sports