Actress on the move

She is currently performing in legendary Tony award-winning playwright, Eve Ensler’s Emotional Creature, which is slated for performances at the Baxter Theatre, Cape Town, and the Intwasa Festival in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe.

Lipschitz said that her interest in acting began at six years old when she joined a casting agency, which led to television commercials and a slot as a presenter on Yo-TV.

She said, “All this confirmed that I wanted to act, although presenting is much more different, I knew that acting was what I wanted to do. And then I studied an honours degree in dramatic arts at Wits.

Soon after graduating she received a number of roles, including a role in the Teatro performance of Jersey Boys, but still believes that actors should make their own work rather than waiting for the opportunities to come. “I think it’s very rare for work as an actress to come around constantly, so I think it’s very significant to make your own work. And that’s how I got to this place,” she said.

She is currently on stage in Eve Ensler’s new play Emotional Creature, a piece which tells the stories of young women all around the world and deals with issues such as eating disorders and genital mutilation, and how the influence modern culture has on their lives. Ensler is most famous for penning The Vagina Monologues.

“I’m so honoured to be working with Eve, and being part of her goal, which is to reach girls all over the world and encouraging girls to embrace their emotions,” she said.

When she is not on stage and touring, Lipschitz acts in, writes and directs her own web series, Chin up which she launched in November last year. The web series is a comedy focusing on the life of the semi-fictional Lara Adine Lipschitz, and her experiences as an actress in Johannesburg.