Lisa Barnard is a vocalist, writer and performance artist. She has honed her skills over the years in acting, movement, stage direction/design, puppetry, jazz/free improvisation and sound production which she experiments with in performances including elements of spoken work, vocalization, masks, music and movement. She dedicates her craft to exploring the open field of vocal expression from within and through the guidance of her mentors.

Barnard is a student of Deep Listening with Pauline Oliveros and studies dream work and Egyptian mythology/divination with Ione and Andrea Goodman, recently traveling in 2004 to Southern Italy to study the Black Madonna and ancient temples of Sicily. Recently, Barnard has completed projects with Pauline Oliveros for a commissioned film score Maquilapolis and participated as Kingston, NY Coordinator for Robert Whitman’s media project Local Report. Lisa performs frequently with Linda Montano and co-created the band Brothelkin with lyricist Bob Lavaggi and guitarist Ian Turner. Currently, Barnard is collaborating with Al Margolis developing a multi-media performance piece, MutaMYTHeatre’s Three Songs in Search of a Voice: a noh(t)opera.