Karen Ziemba

Karen Ziemba
Born (1957-11-12) November 12, 1957 (age 67)
St. Joseph, Michigan, United States
Alma materUniversity of Akron
Occupation(s)Actress, singer, dancer
Years active1980s-present
Spouse
Bill Tatum
​
(m. 1984)​
AwardsTony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical
2000 Contact
Websitewww.karenziemba.com

Karen Ziemba (born November 12, 1957) is an American actress, singer and dancer, best known for her work in musical theatre. In 2000, she won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical for her performance in Contact.

Biography

Ziemba was born in St. Joseph, Michigan, the daughter of Barbara Marie (Heidt) and Oscar Hugo Ziemba, an investment broker. Her grandmother, Winifred Heidt, was an opera singer.[1] Ziemba attended the University of Akron (Ohio), where she studied dance. In 1977 she danced with the Ohio Ballet.[2]

Her Broadway debut was in A Chorus Line as Diana Morales.[2] Later, she played the lead of Peggy Sawyer in 42nd Street. While appearing in 42nd Street, she was featured in the October 1984 issue of Playboy in the article "Babes of Broadway", in which she posed partially nude. Ziemba's other Broadway roles include Polly Baker in Crazy for You in 1992 (replacement),[3] Roxie Hart in Chicago (1998),[4] and Belle Hagner in Teddy & Alice (1987).[5]

Ziemba appeared Off-Broadway in the Kander and Ebb revue And The World Goes 'Round (1991)[6] and won the Drama Desk Award.[7] She received a Drama Desk Award nomination (Best Actress in a Musical) for I Do! I Do! (1996).[8] The next year, she was nominated for the 1997 Drama Desk Award (Outstanding Actress in a Musical) and a 1997 Tony Award (Actress in a Musical) for her role in Steel Pier (1997).[9]

In 2000, Ziemba won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical for her performance in Susan Stroman's Contact.[10] She played the role of "the timid, abused mafioso's wife."[11] The CurtainUp reviewer wrote of the savvy casting "...especially Karen Ziemba, who is finally in a show that makes full use of her dual talents as an actress and dancer...Ziemba (in Did You Move?), brings an amazing female Walter Mitty vulnerability to a frustrated wife having dinner with a husband..."[12]

She appeared in Much Ado About Nothing as Beatrice at the Hartford Stage (Connecticut) and then the Shakespeare Theatre Company (Washington, DC) in November 2002 through January 5, 2003.[13] In 2004 she received another Tony Award nomination (Best Featured Actress in a Musical) for Never Gonna Dance.[14] In 2007, she portrayed the heartwarming lyricist Georgia Hendricks in Curtains, earning her fourth Tony Award nomination.[15]

She performed with the New York City Opera in 110 in the Shade as Lizzie in 1992. The AP News reviewer wrote: "Ziemba's voice is clear and sweet, exactly what's needed for a song like Is It Really Me?."[16] She performed the role of Cleo in the City Opera's production of The Most Happy Fella in 1991. The New York Times reviewer wrote: "...her voice had swagger, grainy brashness and brassy energy, undistracted by higher ambitions."[17][18]

She has appeared in several New York City Center Encores! staged musicals, including The Pajama Game in 2002 (Babe Williams),[19] Bye Bye Birdie in 2004[20] and On Your Toes in 2013 (Lil Dolan).[21]

She starred in the staged reading of Vincent Crapelli's Otherwise, with Beth Leavel and Laura Bonarrigo-Koffman.

Ziemba appeared as Dolly Gallagher Levi in Hello, Dolly! at the Drury Lane Theatre, Oak Brook, Illinois, in 2013.[22]

She returned to Broadway in March 2014, in the new musical adaptation of Woody Allen's Bullets Over Broadway as the character "Eden Brent", directed by Susan Stroman.[23]

In 2015 and 2017 Karen returned to Off-Broadway to play the role of "Mom/Eileen" in Kid Victory.[24]

On television, she has appeared on Law & Order and on film in The Producers[2] and the ill-fated, never released remake of The Devil and Daniel Webster.

In 2020, Ziemba appeared as Barbara Joblove in the musical podcast, Propaganda![25] In 2024, Ziemba starred in the world premiere production of Prelude to a Kiss as Mrs. Boyle.[26]

Personal life

She and actor Bill Tatum wed in 1984.[27]

References

  1. ^ "Karen Ziemba Biography". FilmReference.com.
  2. ^ a b c "Karen Ziemba". TCM.com.
  3. ^ "Crazy for You (Broadway, Sam S. Shubert Theatre, 1992)". Playbill.
  4. ^ Lefkowitz, David; Paller, Rebecca; Ku, Andrew (March 24, 1998). "Karen Ziemba Back on B'way as Chicago's Roxie, Mar. 24". Playbill. Retrieved January 7, 2023.
  5. ^ "Teddy & Alice (Broadway, Minskoff Theatre, 1987)". Playbill. Retrieved January 7, 2023.
  6. ^ "And the World Goes 'Round". Internet Off-Broadway Database. Retrieved January 7, 2023.
  7. ^ "And the World Goes 'Round". rationalmagic.com.
  8. ^ "Outstanding Actress in a Musical - I Do! I Do! - Karen Ziemba". Drama Desk Awards. Archived from the original on October 29, 2013. Retrieved October 23, 2013.
  9. ^ "Steel Pier (Broadway, Richard Rodgers Theatre, 1997)". Playbill.
  10. ^ Lefkowitz, David; McBride, Murdoch; Simonson, Robert (June 5, 2000). "Contact and Copenhagen Win Top 1999-2000 Tony Awards". Playbill. Retrieved January 7, 2023.
  11. ^ Ehren, Christine (June 4, 2000). "2000 TONY AWARD WINNER: Best Featured Actress in a Musical - Karen Ziemba". Playbill.
  12. ^ Sommer, Elyse (October 8, 1999). "Contact--a Dance Play, a CurtainUp review". CurtainUp.
  13. ^ Simonson, Robert; Gans, Andrew (November 5, 2002). "Ziemba Brings Her Much Ado to DC's Shakespeare Theatre, Nov. 5". Playbill.
  14. ^ Jones, Kenneth (June 6, 2004). "Wife, Avenue Q, Assassins, Henry IV Are 2004 Tony Award Winners; Mays, Menzel, Jackman, Rashad Golden". Playbill. Retrieved January 7, 2023.
  15. ^ Gans, Andrew (May 15, 2007). "2006-2007 Tony Nominations Announced; Spring Awakening Garners 11 Noms". Playbill. Retrieved January 7, 2023.
  16. ^ Campbell, Mary (July 19, 1992). "NY City Opera Presents '110 in the Shade'". AP News. Archived from the original on January 7, 2017. Retrieved January 6, 2017.
  17. ^ Rothstein, Edward (September 6, 1991). "Review/City Opera; Bride Arrives, Without Her Fidelity". The New York Times.
  18. ^ Collins, Glenn (July 30, 1992). "When Homeliness Is in the Eye of the Beholder". The New York Times.
  19. ^ Simonson, Robert (January 28, 2002). "Karen Ziemba to Head Pajama Game at Encores; Barrett Sought". Playbill. Retrieved January 7, 2023.
  20. ^ Gans, Andrew; Hernandez, Ernio (April 1, 2004). "Encores! Bye Bye Birdie to Star Ziemba, Roberts, Bobbie and Jenkins". Playbill. Retrieved January 7, 2023.
  21. ^ Gans, Andrew (April 15, 2013). "Christine Baranski, Kelli Barrett, Walter Bobbie, Randy Skinner, Karen Ziemba Cast in Encores! On Your Toes". Playbill. Retrieved January 7, 2023.
  22. ^ Gans, Andrew (October 24, 2013). "Tony Winner Karen Ziemba Is a Musical Matchmaker in Drury Lane Theatre's Hello, Dolly!, Opening Oct. 24". Playbill. Retrieved January 7, 2023.
  23. ^ Hetrick, Adam (January 9, 2014). "Karen Ziemba Joins Woody Allen's Bullets Over Broadway; Casting Now Complete". Playbill. Retrieved January 7, 2023.
  24. ^ "Kid Victory". Vineyard Theatre. Archived from the original on August 12, 2017. Retrieved February 10, 2022.
  25. ^ Cristi, A.A. (October 5, 2020). "Treatman Creative Presents PROPAGANDA! THE PODCAST MUSICAL". BroadwayWorld.
  26. ^ "Prelude to a Kiss, the Musical". South Coast Repertory.
  27. ^ Spaner, Whitney (June 13, 2015). "How Love Letters Kept Karen Ziemba and Bill Tatum's Long-Distance Romance Alive". Playbill.

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