Risa has a theatre, dance, film-directing, music and performance background, alongside a passion for teaching and working with children. Starting in Canberra with QL2 Youth Dance as a child, Risa quickly became familiar with concepts of creative collaboration, discipline, storytelling- and performance technique, and had a great introduction to modern dance in working with many choreographers in concept pieces. Her dance passion has since moved to Tribal fusion styles of belly dance. Music and theatre have played major roles in Risa’s love of the arts, and throughout secondary schooling she participated in musicals and plays, from comedic to verbatim theatre, particularly taking to challenging emotive roles and, contrastingly, physical comedy, which is a big component of her teaching style with children. 

Risa was lead jazz vocalist in band KCP (2013), and is featuring on ukulele and vocals at the annual Merimbula Jazz Festival in 2015 with funk-fusion band Reservoir Cats. Other shows include Les Miserables  with Lyneham High School, the role of Peter in Child Players’ Peter Pan (2010), Dickson College’s The Laramie Project, as well as several QL2 projects. Risa currently works as a Kids Entertainer for Capital Kids Parties and at the Belconnen Community Service Centre as a facilitator for the Tiny Tumblers Program (kids aged 2-4) and a ukulele teacher, and as a dance teacher for Gumnut Dance.