Abby Zotz

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Abby Zotz is a Canadian actress in feature films and television series, actress in musical theater , musician and singer-songwriter .

biography

As a teenager, Abby Zotz began performing at the Theater in the City of Oshawa , Ontario . She studied singing at the Royal Conservatory of Music. She already has a diverse musical background from her parents' house.

This branch of the Zotz family comes from the Dachauer Moos. The family may also have its origins in Tyrol and spread in the Dachauer Moos after the Thirty Years War. Abby's father Ed Zotz emigrated to Canada. He taught his daughter the music of his homeland and of classics such as Johann Sebastian Bach , Beethoven and Mozart . The mother Joyce Zotz comes from Nova Scotia and has a special closeness to traditional Irish and Scottish music, which also influenced the daughter's style.

activity

Abby Zotz is also internationally active as an actress, for example, she gave her own music show at the Stadttheater Pforzheim . But it occurs mostly in Canada and the USA. She worked as a stage actress at the Factory Theater in Toronto , but was best known for her work in American and Canadian television series and films, for example in the comedy film Charlie Bartlett or in the Canadian-US television series Queer as Folk , which is about the friendship of gay men acts on lesbian women.

Abby Zotz is also personally concerned with the issue of homosexuality . When the Metropolitan Community Church in Toronto challenged Canadian marriage legislation in 2001 by demonstratively marrying a gay and lesbian couple in a media-effective manner, Abby Zotz took over the musical arrangement of the wedding service.

Abby Zotz's musical spectrum ranges from a cappella interpretation of Renaissance music to concerts with songs by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill to collaboration with Paul Humphreys. Abby Zotz founded the ensembles “The MadriGALS” and “Two Roads Home”.

Filmography

  • 1993: The Guns of the Law ( Street Legal , TV series, an episode)
  • 2002: Sue Thomas: FBI ( Sue Thomas: FBEye , TV series, two episodes)
  • 2004: Queer as Folk (TV series, one episode)
  • 2005: Our Fathers (TV movie)
  • 2007: Tkaronto
  • 2007: Charlie Bartlett
  • 2008: Strawberries and Wine

Discography

  • 1998: The MadriGALS: Alchemy
  • 2003: Two Roads Home: Dovetailing
  • 2008: Two Roads Home: Sweet Shadows

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kevin Bourassa and Joe Varnell: Just married. Gay Marriage and the Expansion of Human Rights. Madison, Wis .: University of Wisconsin Press 2002, p. 230
personal data
SURNAME Zotz, Abby
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian actress and singer
DATE OF BIRTH before 1980