Andrea Conway, also known as Andrea Conway-Doba (born September 15, 1971), is a former Canadian gymnast, acrobat, actor, tap dancer and clown from Pointe-Claire, Quebec. [1] [2]
Andrea Conway, also known as Andrea Conway-Doba (born September 15, 1971), is a former Canadian gymnast, acrobat, actor, tap dancer and clown from Pointe-Claire, Quebec. [1] [2]
Conway competed in artistic gymnastics on a national level, representing Quebec. [3] In 1987, she represented Canada at the Pan American Games in Indianapolis, winning a bronze medal [4] for team Canada. [5]
Conway toured with Cirque du Soleil from 1992–2000, performing on the Chinese poles and Russian swing. [6] [7] She was an original cast member in Cirque du Soleil's Saltimbanco .
In 2001, she was cast in Teatro Zinzanni. She went on to collaborate in 18 Teatro Zinzanni productions in San Francisco and Seattle. [8] [9] [10] She also co-wrote and co-directed two Teatro Zinzanni productions. [11] [12]
Conway appeared in several Teatro Zinzanni shows with her husband, Wayne Doba, [13] as the tap dancing comedy duo “Dik and Mitzi”. [14] [15] [16] The couple perform two-person shows in small theaters across the U.S. and Canada. [17] [18] [19] [20]
Conway went into kidney failure in 2016 and spent two years on dialysis before undergoing a successful kidney transplant from an anonymous donor. She wrote about her experience in Journal Le Tour, a bilingual newspaper in Quebec. [21] [22]
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