The Gals
Lily LaBelle
A late bloomer in the art of performance, Lily dabbled in the visual arts since before she could walk. It all started when she discovered that drinking paint water did not, in fact, make you a better artist, and her obstinate gene took over, and her artistic career rocketed off from there. Her initial entertainment crash tests debuted while on cast at the Sarasota Medieval Fair, before graduating with a degree in Illustration from the Ringling College of Art and Design in Florida. Diploma in hand, she ran for the stage and open road in 2012 and hasn't (quite) looked back since. She has spent the past decade training in the art of acrobalance, contortion, whip cracking, globe walking, and modernizing the younger milllenial references.
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Lily has performed with a variety of different stage shows at festivals all over the country, including the Tribal Circus, the People's Circus, and Moondrop Circus. After obtaining her Bachelor of Fine Arts, Lily and her trusty partner-in-crime created Topsy Turvy, to further ensure their plans of world domination through sheer volume of arm flailing glory and gratuitous use of confetti.
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Amanda made her grand stage debut with the 1965 Academy Award winning Rogers and Hammerstein classic, So Long, Farewell in her three year old ballet recital and has been looking for excuses to perform in front of audiences ever since. Dance, renaissance festivals, and theatre productions filled her childhood (once all of her homework was done, of course). After acquiring her master’s degree in education and producing 30 shows per week for a captive audience of public school teenagers, she realized that there had to be something out there that would get more cheers than theoretical geometry.
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In pursuit of the elusive standing ovation, she has fire danced in the Bahamas,
sword fought all over the state of Florida, mermaided in Michigan, and masqueraded as every bit Shakespeare role left vacant after casting. She sewed endless costumes, wrote and directed some original shows before Lily reached out the hand of partnership and Topsy Turvy was born. Now, Amanda’s lifetime of festival experience and arsenal of stupid human tricks have a dedicated purpose until she is too broken (or broke) to continue and will return once again to being responsible for the education and betterment of your impressionable youth.
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If you have impressionable youth in need of educational betterment (think math tutoring, academic enrichment activities, or study skills support), please reach out to MissAmandaTutors@gmail.com
Amanda Renaud
