![]() Like many aspiring artists, she travelled the world to gain experience. ![]() Lisa started performing in Shreveport and later moved to New Orleans where she made her drag debut in 1973 at The Cabaret. She attended Haughton High School and graduated from Louisiana Tech University in Ruston with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in speech, with concentration in theater. In 2016, she lost her other sibling, Cherry Wright Meadows. She is survived by her sister, Olive Wright Nicolosi, one niece and three nephews: Sharon, Travis, Kevin, and Keith. Lisa was born Riley Bowman Wright, III, on June 24, 1953, in Winnfield, LA, to her late parents, Riley Bowman Wright, Jr., and Lee Ovill Berry Wright. Her life partner of sixteen years (2002), Marcus Martinez of Mississippi, survives her. Lisa Beaumann, a New Orleans performer best known for her illusion of Liza Minnelli, “made her mind up back in Chelsea, when I go, I’m going like Elsie.” With great fanfare and flourish, Lisa-who heard the music play, and who lived her life in a cabaret-sashayed away on November 29, 2018, after a yearlong battle with cancer.
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