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Emmanuelle Zeesman (born 20th century) is a Canadian actress in film, stage, and television, as well as a singer, musical director, and choreographer working primarily in the United States and Canada. She has also performed throughout Australia, Asia and Europe. Zeesman is also a pianist, a trumpet player, and tin whistler.

Training

Zeesman graduated from the University of Windsor Musical Theatre Performance Program before becoming an instructor at the Ottawa School of Speech and Drama. In addition to her education at Windsor, Zeesman is a graduate of École Philippe Gaulier, and she has studied under leading Canadian acting, musical theatre, and choreography coaches.

Performances

Movies and television

Zeesman played the role of Lou Anne in the short film "Mercy". Her credits also list her as performing in various film and television roles (acting, dancing, hosting), including A Lover's Revenge, First Comes Love, Getting Along Famously, Officier Croupier, and The Breakfast Club (for Rogers Cable and the New RO television, not the John Hughes film).

Theatre

Zeesman is a member of A Company of Fools Theatre Inc., a not-for-profit professional theatre company that presents Shakespeare plays in a format that employs editing, improvisation, costumes, make up, physical comedy, and local and contemporary references to appeal to broad audiences, including children and those uninitiated into Shakespeare's works.

Zeesman's theatrical performances are tabled below.

Awards

In 2010 the Capital Critics Circle (CCC) awarded her the title of Best Professional Actor for her role in Blood Brothers at the Gladstone Theatre. Alvina Ruprecht of the CCC, and resident theatrical critic of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, describes Zeesman's performance as "absolutely magnificent as Mrs Johnstone, the worried, harassed debt ridden mother who can't pay, can't control her oldest boys ... Zeesman's singing brings great depth to all these emotional situations. As well as being a strong singer she has also become a serious actress. The final number, 'Tell me it's not true', as she bends over the two bodies of her dead sons, was the culmination of a great performance".

References

1. ^
   • Emanuelle Zeesman: Résumé Mensour Agency, retrieved 19 June 2012. Archived March 17, 2012, at the Wayback Machine
   • "Theatre". Emmanuelle Zeesman website. Retrieved August 1, 2024.
2. Musical Instructors, Ottawa School of Speech and Drama, retrieved 19 June 2012. Archived 17 March 2012 at the Wayback Machine
3. "Mercy". IMDb.
4. "About A Company of Fools Theatre: Mandate". Company of Fools. Retrieved August 6, 2012.
5. • "The Gladstone – HOME". The Gladstone. 2012. Archived from the original on June 15, 2012. Retrieved August 6, 2012. Archived 6 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine
   • "Past Shows". The Gladstone.
6. "CCC Theatre Awards 2010 Capital Critics Circle Announces Eleventh Annual Theatre Awards". Capital Critics Circle. November 15, 2010. Archived from the original on March 17, 2012. Retrieved August 6, 2012.
7. "Home of the Canadian Theatre Critics Association - Membership". Canadiantheatrecritics.ca. June 13, 2000. Archived from the original on March 2, 2012. Retrieved 2012-09-20.
8. "Blood Brothers at the Gladstone". Capital Critics Circle. Archived from the original on March 17, 2012. Retrieved August 6, 2012.

External links

• Emmanuelle Zeesman at IMDb
• Emmanuelle Zeesman website http://www.emmanuellezeesman.com/

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