Biography

2004, zoepappas.com

A May 27, 2004 capture is only a listserv notice headed “Zoe Pappas Listserv.” It says that to subscribe, a person should email zoe-update@pappalini.com.

The August 29, 2004 capture is the actor page. Its title is “Zoe Colglazier Pappas, Actor,” and a heading under the name banner reads “Actor.” The page says it is under construction, and that it will eventually contain information about Zoe’s acting career: current gigs, resume, photos, interviews, reviews, and so on. It asks people to write if they want to see something that is not on the site. A line on the page says it was updated 07/19/2004. The same page was still that version in a December 7, 2004 capture.

The page links to three other sites by name: Bruce’s site (pappalini.com), MJ’s site (pappas.biz), and Rhea’s site (rheapappas.com). It says the site is hosted by Host Excellence, and that questions about the website should go to Bruce at bcp@pappalini.com. Interview questions for the site, marked “Coming soon!”, use that same address. A “Join!” line offers the listserv at zoe-update@pappalini.com “to keep up to-date with what she’s doing.” A general contact link uses zoe@zoepappas.com.

Sources: May 27, 2004 and August 29, 2004.

2010, her blog

The only archived page of blog.zoepappas.com is a May 17, 2013 capture of the homepage. The blog is titled “I’m Done Fixin’ to Blog, Y’all!” and the description is “All about my adventures…” Posts are by the author name zoepappas. An About link is in the menu, but that About page was not archived.

Two posts are on the page, dated July 15 and July 28, 2010. In them she writes from the South. She names Enterprise, a visit to nearby Dothan, and a weekend in New Orleans. She writes about time with her boyfriend Jonas, who was in Army Black Hawk flight school, and about a family reunion with her parents and little sister in Indiana. The July 28 post says her birthday was about a week away. She does not give the calendar date.

On work, the July 15 post says a gym on post offered her a teaching job without an interview, that Gold’s Gym had hired her as a personal trainer in training, and that she had an interview or audition at Anytime Fitness where she would teach a class. She writes that she was training for a marathon on January 11, 2011. She also writes: “I, of course, miss life at home. The yoga studio, being onstage…but, I miss my friends and family the most.” She calls Minnesota home in that post.

The posts include photographs (a frog face, beignets, Black Hawk helicopters, and a picture captioned “My Handsome Helicopter Pilot”). Those image files were not captured.

Source: blog.zoepappas.com, captured May 17, 2013.

2014, Zoga

From a December 22, 2014 capture through at least March 2019, zoepappas.com is a WordPress site named Zoga. The tagline is “Humility. Patience. Gratitude.” The author name on the posts is Zoe. A custom background uses a pink fallback, #f49a9a, and a square beach photograph. That photograph is in the gallery. The archive does not caption it with a name or a place.

Off to India, March 12!

Posted March 5, 2014. She writes that she is off to India on March 12 to complete her 500-hour yoga training, and that she hopes to blog from there. No later post from India was archived.

The problem is a marvelous gift

Posted March 20, 2014, in her words:

Transforming hate into love and compassion is like putting saran wrap over a container of rotting food; it does not resolve anything. We must go to the raw and direct feeling. There is nothing to transform. To transform is to lose the chance that we have been given to look at reality. The solution is in the problem and not in the negotiation. The problem is a marvelous gift.

The post does not name a source for that passage. The author archive lists the same two posts and gives the first name Zoe, with no biography text.

Sources: December 22, 2014, March 26, 2016, the India post, the March 20 post, and the author page.

Artist Upgrade

Artist Upgrade’s site, in captures from 2009, describes itself as a studio making websites and promotional materials for actors and other artists. Its clients page of August 7, 2009 shows a thumbnail whose alternative text is “zoepappas,” linking to www.zoepappas.net. The thumbnail file was not archived. The testimonials page of August 8, 2009 has a section named quote_zoe. That note says she trusted the studio to build her site with care and to keep updating it as her career continued, and it links to the same .net address as “her” artist website. The note does not give a surname, roles, or a city. The zoepappas.com pages recovered here do not mention Artist Upgrade.

Sources: clients page and testimonials page. A live search of artistupgrade.com for “Zoe Pappas” on November 11, 2026 returned no matching pages. The current site is a different publication.

Program bios she wrote

Two short bios were saved for theater programs. They are printed here as she wrote them.

Illusion Theatre

Zoe is pleased to be working for her first time with Illusion Theatre. Recently, she was seen performing in Eye of the Storm Theatre’s The Play About the Baby. She has worked with The Children’s Theatre Company, Guthrie Theatre, Mixed Blood Theatre, and many others. She can next be seen in The Jon Hassler Theatre’s production of Honk!. Thanks to my family, Joe, Alison, Andy, and Jeff for your constant support.

Eye of the Storm, after The Spitfire Grill

Zoe Pappas is happy to be back with Eye of the Storm after playing “Girl” in The Play About the Baby last spring. Most recently, she completed a two month run as “Percy” in The Spitfire Grill with Buffalo Gal Productions here at the Loring and at the Jon Hassler Theater in Plainview, Minnesota. In the few months prior, she performed many roles in Honk! at the Jon Hassler Theater and “Bess” in The Human Comedy at the Illusion Theatre. She has performed with the Children’s Theatre Company, the Guthrie Theatre, Mixed Blood, Lake Pepin Players, and Stages Theater Company. In the fall of 2002, Zoe was named one of the “Best Top Ten Actors Under 30” by the St. Paul Pioneer Press’ Dominic Papatola, thanks to her role in EOTS’ Baby. Big hugs to all my friends (especially Al)! To my loving family—thank you. Without you three, I wouldn’t be where I am today. And last, but not least, my love to Pete. You make this all worthwhile.

A Hopkins High School program for Camelot lists her as Morgan le Fay, assistant director, and Lady. The note names Luisa in The Fantasticks, Anita in West Side Story, Miss Lucy in Mr. Popper’s Penguins, and Delores/Prostitute in Working, and says she can next be seen as Liesl in The Sound of Music with Eden Prairie Community Theater. The rest of that note is a goodbye to school and is not reprinted.

The Footloose program bio says she had recently played Babette in the Ordway’s Beauty and the Beast, names the Chanhassen roles Ulla, Eponine, Rizzo, and the Narrator in Joseph, and says she had worked professionally around the Twin Cities for 12 years at the Ordway, Pantages, Guthrie, Children’s Theatre, Theater Latté Da, and Eye of the Storm. The personal thanks in that bio are not reprinted.

Sources: Bio.doc, Bio for Zoe Pappas.doc, Saved_112402\Cast Biographies.doc, and Footloose Bios.doc. The full credit lists are on the credits page.

Pages she saved for the website

The June 29, 2008 copy of the site is headed “Actor” and “Minneapolis, Minnesota USA.” It links family sites, a Facebook profile, MySpace, a YouTube user page, Friendster, a Wehmann Models & Talent profile, and zoe@zoepappas.com. Those links are on the socials page.

Three small pages in the same website folder, index, redirect, and frame, send zoepappas.com to zoepappas.net. Their title is “Zoe Pappas - Actor Website.” The index page’s keywords are model, singer, dancer, actor, voice-over, AEA, AFTRA, and SAG. A layout folder named Mick, marked as designed by Artist Upgrade, links buttons for bio, gallery, resume, and contact to pages on zoepappas.net. Those four pages are not in the folder.

The parked page saved December 8, 2021 says the domain zoepappas.com is parked and that Zoe may be contacted by Gmail: zoecourneya. That is the same notice as the December 29, 2021 archive capture.

Sources: Website\old_site_2008\index.htm, Website\index.htm, Website\redirect\index.htm, Website\frame\index.htm, Website\Mick\index.htm, and Website\parked.htm.

Contact, as printed

These are the contact lines printed on the archived pages. They have not been checked to see if they still work.

• May and August 2004: listserv, zoe-update@pappalini.com.
• August 2004: zoe@zoepappas.com for a note to Zoe.
• August 2004: bcp@pappalini.com for interview questions and for questions about the website, addressed to Bruce.
• December 29, 2021, and still on September 19, 2024: the parked homepage says, “Zoe may be contacted by Gmail: zoecourneya.”

The 2004 archive pages name no agent. The June 29, 2008 page she saved does link a Wehmann Models & Talent profile. That link is on the credits page.

Parked page: September 19, 2024. The same notice is in the December 29, 2021 capture.