Emmanuelle Zeesman

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. 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, , and The Breakfast Club (for Rogers Cable and the New RO television, not the John Hughes film).

Zeesman's theatrical performances are tabled below.

+Theatrical performances Performance Role Theatre (production) Guys and Dolls Mimi National Arts Centre I The Writer Gladstone Theatre (David Hersh) Blood Brothers musical Mrs. Johnstone Gladstone Theatre The Andrews Brothers Peggy Gladstone Theatre Doubt Sister James Gladstone Theatre (John P. Kelly) Romeo and Juliet Juliet A Company of Fools (Al Connors) The Snow Show Elizabeth National Arts Centre (Jennifer Brewin) The Gimquet (or, Found Her Song) Gimquet Platypus Theatre (Peter Duschenes) La Vie Parisienne Pauline Theatre Lyrique (Steve Michaud) Home As Cast STO Union (Nadia Ross) Tempest in a Teapot Miranda A Company of Fools (Scott Florence) Macbeth Lady Macbeth Salamander Theatre (Chris McLeod) Twelfth Night Olivia A Company of Fools (Torchlight Shakespeare; Margo McDonald) The Tales of Hoffmann Spirite Opera Lyra (Henri Akino) Lunch Mary U of O Masters Series (Nathalie Quesnel) Dans le creux de la vague La Mer (Lead Vocalist) Jeunesse en Tete (Anne-Marie Riel) Amahl and the Night Visitors Shepherdess Detroit Symphony Orchestra (Diana-Mady Kelly) Into the Woods Rapunzel Essex Theatre (David Savoy) Romeo and Juliet Capulet (Dancer) Opera Lyra (Daniel Livingston) The Secret Garden musical Lily Experimental Theatre (Melanie Walker) Mother Courage Ivette Third Wall Theatre (James Richardson) Samuel Beckett Shorts Morvan Late Night Series for Great Canadian Theatre Company (C. Roberts) A Midwinter's Dream Tale Titania A Company of Fools (Al Connors) A Midsummer Night's Dream Hermia A Company of Fools (Catriona Leger) Forbidden Broadway Julie Andrews Experimental Theatre (S. Henrickson) A World of Stories Storyteller Salamander Theatre (Eleanor Crowder) Parliament Hill Players Lady Dufferin Government of Canada (Benoit Osborne) Never Swim Alone Referee Vision Theatre (Greg Wizinski) Chicago Velma Kelly Eddy May Mysteries (Riley Stewart) Hairspray Prudy Pingleton / Gym Teacher / Matron Segerstrom Hall, Costa Mesa CA

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".