Mia Star van Leeuwen is an independent performance artist, physical-actor, writer, singer, designer (and go-go dancer!) who has since her graduation from the University of Winnipeg’s department of Theatre & Film (2003), been creating original, experimental, physical-theatre productions with Winnipeg’s very own, out of line theatre. Mia has been fortunate to work with international musicians and composers Eve Rice(Vav Jungle) & Borisia Sabljic, break-core artist Fanny, the accomplished choreographer and theatre director Tom Stroud, renowned actors and playwrights Sharon Bajer and Debbie Patterson, contemporary dancers Natasha Torres-Garner, Jennifer Essex and Petra Steinert (shot AG, Germany), award winning poet and singer/songwriter Drek Daa and movie-maker extraordinaire, Guy Maddin (My Winnipeg, Fancy Fancy Being Rich). Recently, Mia gave birth to her “baby clown” in an intensive Pochinko (mask & clown) workshop led by John Turner, co-creator of the famous Canadian horror-clown-duo Mump & Smoot. Mia is currently writing a new play The God Box, where she explores notions of trauma and memory, addiction, religion, stylistic diversity, fragmentation, beauty, horror, emotional complexity, The Monkey's Paw, stage directions, and how to make the ordinary extraordinary.

Mia is always open to connecting with others through ideas

and the movement of them.