Credits

Stage, after the May 2009 resume

• Footloose — Ariel Moore. Chanhassen Dinner Theatres. Her program bio also lists Ulla in The Producers, Eponine in Les Misérables, Rizzo in Grease, and the Narrator in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.
• Disney’s Beauty and the Beast — Babette. Ordway Center for the Performing Arts, December 15, 2009 through January 3, 2010. The same Footloose bio says she had recently appeared as Babette.
• Painting Churches — Mags Church. Park Square Theatre, February 26 through March 21, 2010. Her website notes say she will star, directed by Jon Cranney, with Katherine Ferrand and Richard Ooms. The notes call it her first straight play since Slither.
• Ordway Extra — songs from classic novels adapted for the stage, with another Minneapolis performer, October 14 and October 21, 2009. The notes name A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Little Women, Huckleberry Finn, Tom Sawyer, Oliver, and Peter Pan.

Sources: Footloose Bios.doc, and Zoe’s Website.doc (August 19, 2009).

Stage, May 2009 resume

The resume heading is Zoe Pappas, AEA/SAG/AFTRA. An earlier resume in the 2002 archive lists her as an Equity Membership Candidate and a soprano. Those lines are not repeated as current facts.

• A Midsummer Night’s Dream — Helena, understudy, and First Fairy, understudy. Guthrie Theater. Joe Dowling.
• Grey Gardens — Young “Little” Edie. Ordway Center. James Rocco.
• Les Misérables — Eponine. Chanhassen Dinner Theaters. Michael Brindisi.
• Grease — Rizzo. Chanhassen Dinner Theaters. Michael Brindisi.
• Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat — Narrator. Chanhassen Dinner Theaters. Michael Brindisi.
• The Producers — Ulla. Chanhassen Dinner Theaters. Michael Brindisi.
• Grease — Rizzo. Pantages Theatre. Michael Brindisi.
• Hair — Sheila. Pantages Theatre. Michael Brindisi. The resume spells the name Shelia.
• The Play About the Baby — Girl. Eye of the Storm. Casey Stangl.
• Slither — Evie. Eye of the Storm. Casey Stangl.
• The Shape of Things — Jenny. Eye of the Storm. Stephen DiMenna.
• Awesome 80’s Prom — Heather Wellington. Hennepin Stages. Ken Davenport. The on-camera resume says Heather #1 and titles the show The Awesome 80’s Prom.
• Floyd Collins — Nellie. Theater Latté Da. Peter Rothstein.
• A Man of No Importance — Adele. Theater Latté Da. Peter Rothstein. The resume drops the word “A” from the title.
• The Human Comedy — Bess. Illusion Theatre Company. Peter Rothstein.
• Oliver! — Nancy. Sabes Jewish Community Center. Aaron Gabriel.
• Cinderella — Ball Dancer, Olio Player, Caroler. The Children’s Theatre Company. Wendy Lehr.
• How the Grinch Stole Christmas — Annie Who. The Children’s Theatre Company. Myron Johnson.
• Mr. Popper’s Penguins — Miss Lucy, Fashion Lady, Bobby Soxer. The Children’s Theatre Company. Myron Johnson.
• Madeline’s Rescue — Vegetable Seller, Elise understudy. The Children’s Theatre Company. Myron Johnson.
• The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe — Unicorn, Ensemble. The Children’s Theatre Company. Tim Vasen.
• And the World Goes ’Round — Company, solo on “All That Jazz.” Children’s Theatre Studio. Matthew Howe.
• The Spitfire Grill — Percy. Buffalo Gal Productions. Perrin Post.
• Legendary Ladies — Singer #3. Buffalo Gal Productions. Perrin Post.
• The Fantasticks — Luisa. Jon Hassler Theater. Peter Rothstein.
• My Way — Woman #2. Jon Hassler Theater. Clark Cruikshank. The 2003 agency resume titles it Christmas My Way – A Frank Sinatra Tribute.
• Honk! — Penny, Henrietta, Pinkfoot, Maggie Pie. Jon Hassler Theater. Billy Kimmel. The 2003 agency resume also names her dance captain.
• The Spitfire Grill — Percy. Jon Hassler Theater. Perrin Post.
• Buried Child — Shelly. Pig’s Eye Theater. Randall J. Funk.
• Camelot — Guenevere. Lake Pepin Players, starring Ron Palillo. Bill Rogers. Early resumes spell the name Guenivere.
• Working — Delores, Prostitute, Babe. Stages Theatre Company. Steve Barberio.

Source: Zoe’s Resume.doc, file dated May 6, 2009. Dance captain and the Sinatra title: Zoe’s Agency Resume.doc, September 4, 2003. Heather #1: New On-Camera Resume_.doc, September 6, 2007.

Stage, on earlier resumes only

• A Christmas Carol — Ensemble. The Guthrie Theater. Gary Gisselman.
• Sisters of Swing — Female understudy (Laverne, Maxene, Patty). Great American History Theater. Ron Peluso.
• Fire Ball — Minnie, Lois, and others. Great American History Theater. Joe Chvala.
• Reviving Ophelia Workshop — Ophelia. Mixed Blood Theater Company. Sari Ketter.
• To Whom It May Concern — Sister. Jon Hassler Theater. Sally Childs.
• All in the Timing — Mrs. Trotsky, Hazel, Karen, Joan. Pigs Eye Theater. Jay Urmann.
• The Legacy — Marie. Frontier Theatre. Michelle Elliot.
• Winona — Winona. Theater du Mississippi. Maggy Jacqmin.
• The Velveteen Rabbit — Fairy. Child’s Play Theatre Company. Steve Barberio. An awards list calls the company Stages Theatre Company.
• The Sound of Music — Liesl. Eden Prairie Community Theater. Claude Giroux. One resume says Eden Prairie Acting Ensemble and spells the name Liesel.
• Carnival of the Animals — Narrator, understudy. Minnesota Orchestra. Matthew Howe.

Grand Excursion (Abigail Fillmore) is listed as upcoming on the 2003 agency resume and does not appear on a later resume, so it is not listed as a role she played.

Sources: Saved_112402\Resume.doc and Resume2.doc, in the folder saved November 24, 2002; Zoe’s Agency Resume.doc; New On-Camera Resume_.doc; Best Lead Award.doc.

School

• Camelot — Morgan le Fay, chorus, and assistant director. Hopkins High School. John Trow. The program bio also says Lady.
• The Fantasticks — Luisa. Hopkins High School. John Trow.
• West Side Story — Anita. Benilde-St. Margaret’s High School. Scott Effertz. Best Lead Award from the drama staff.
• How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying — Secretary, pit singer. Benilde-St. Margaret’s. Scott Effertz.
• Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat — Narrator. Breck School. Tom Hegg.
• Pippin — Ensemble, Katherine understudy. Breck School. Tom Hegg.
• How to Eat Like a Child — Ensemble, Birthday Girl. Breck School. Tom Hegg.
• The Me Nobody Knows — Rhoda. Breck School. Tom Hegg.

At Benilde-St. Margaret’s she was in Pop Choir and Liturgical Choir, and she founded the Madrigal Choir. The awards list also names a Choral Award, Minnesota State High School League superior ratings for solo, duet, trio, and small group, Best of Site, a varsity letter in choir, and All-Conference Choir in the Metro Alliance Conference.

Source: Saved_112402\Resume.doc, Cast Biographies.doc, and Best Lead Award.doc.

Dance

• City Children’s Nutcracker — Party Girl, Toy Soldier, Russian, Snow Sprite. Four years.
• The Joffrey Ballet Nutcracker — Tree Angel, Mounted Mouse. Two years. The resume spells it Joffery.
• Ballet West Nutcracker, Salt Lake City — Lady-in-Waiting. One year.
• Ballet Arts Minnesota — ballet, modern, and pointe. Seven years.
• Ballet Arts Summer Intensive — ballet, modern, pointe, flamenco, Russian, and jazz. Two years.
• Dance captain for Honk! at the Jon Hassler Theater, with Billy Kimmel.

Sources: Saved_112402\Resume.doc and Zoe’s Agency Resume.doc.

Singing

On November 5, 2001, PAPPAS Design presented Zoe Pappas Cabaret, billed as a September 11 benefit. Mindy Eschedor was the accompanist and Randy Seitz the technical director. The program is mostly John Kander and Fred Ebb: “But the World Goes ’Round,” “The Happy Time,” “And All That Jazz,” “Isn’t This Better,” “The Grass Is Always Greener” with Rhea Pappas, “Maybe This Time,” “I Don’t Remember You,” “Ring Them Bells,” “A Quiet Thing,” and “New York, New York.” Also “Summertime,” “Why Can’t You Behave?,” “How Lucky Can You Get,” “Bridge Over Troubled Water,” “Empty Chairs at Empty Tables,” “I’ll Be There” with Reid Harmsen, “Hold On,” “Tears in Heaven,” “Somewhere,” “The Prayer” with David Anderson, and “Over the Rainbow.” Guitar on three numbers is credited to Bruce Pappas.

A separate recital list in the same archive names further solos: “The World Goes ’Round,” “Your Daddy’s Son,” “Adelaide’s Lament,” “How Lucky Can You Get?,” “Big Spender,” “As Long As He Needs Me,” “Batti Batti,” and “I’ll Be Seeing You.”

An awards list says a GIA Publications CD featured her three times as a soloist.

Private voice lessons with David Jorlett are listed as six years on the 2002 resume. The May 2009 resume names David Jorlett, Andrew Cooke, and Manon Gimlett. Northern Pines Music Camp is listed as two years. The awards list also says Northern Pines Music Festival, one week, in 10th grade.

Sources: Saved_112402\Zoe Pappas Cabaret.doc, Song List for Recital.doc, Best Lead Award.doc, Resume.doc, and Zoe’s Resume.doc.

On camera

The on-camera resume says voice-over work was available on request. It does not name the spots. A 2008 redirect page for the website uses the keywords model, singer, dancer, actor, and voice-over.

• IDEAs — Host. Trade show, live event.
• Target — Principal. Red Card training video.
• American Express — Principal. “Ameriprise Financial Compliance.”
• Best Buy — Principal. DVD for TV purchasers.
• Target, produced by Jack Morton — Principal. “The Best Job Ever.” The 2003 agency resume says principal, guest shopper, summer 2003.
• US Food Services — Principal. Harassment video.
• Jordan Motors — Principal. “We Just Like the Cars – Test Drive.” The agency resume says young wife, fall 2003.
• Historic Theatres — Principal. “Hair: The Tribal Love Rock Musical.”
• Best Buy movie trailer — Featured extra. “Silence is Golden/Cheer.”
• Hotels.com — Extra. “The Expert,” spring 2003.
• Best Buy — Extra. “Rocky,” Christmas 2002.

Sources: New On-Camera Resume_.doc and Zoe’s Agency Resume.doc. Keywords: Website\index.htm.

Technical

• Assistant director — Camelot, Hopkins High School. John Trow. The program staff list also names her for properties and programs.
• Stage manager and sound board operator — A Streetcar Named Desire, Children’s Theatre Studio. Matthew Howe.
• Drama club — Northside Community Center, about five hours a week for two months, 11th grade.

Anita Ruth, a musical director at Children’s Theatre Company, wrote that she had known Zoe since she was fourteen, across four shows, and recommended her for a directing internship at the Guthrie. The phone number on that letter is not published.

Sources: Saved_112402\Resume.doc, Behind the Scenes.doc, Best Lead Award.doc, and AnitaRecommendation.doc.

Training

• Children’s Theatre Company arts training, four years: jazz, tap, ballet, voice, acting, stage combat, and Margolis method.
• Ballet Arts Minnesota and the summer intensive, listed under dance.
• Private voice, listed under singing.

Source: Zoe’s Resume.doc and Saved_112402\Resume.doc.

Honors on the resumes

• Video project, Lives in Theater — “Zoe Pappas: Triple Threat,” Graydon Royce and Steve Rice, Minneapolis Star Tribune.
• Outstanding Actress in a Musical, 2008, for The Producers — Graydon Royce and Rohan Preston, Minneapolis Star Tribune.
• Honorable mention, Outstanding Actress in a Musical, 2004, for Hair — Graydon Royce and Rohan Preston, Minneapolis Star Tribune.
• Talent Shout for A Man of No Importance — Graydon Royce, Minneapolis Star Tribune.
• Top Ten Actors in Minneapolis under 30 — Dominic Papatola, St. Paul Pioneer Press. A program bio thanks the same list to her role in Eye of the Storm’s The Play About the Baby.
• Artist of the Week, “Six Questions” — St. Paul Pioneer Press.
• Best Lead Award, “Anita” in West Side Story, Benilde-St. Margaret’s drama staff.

Her awards list names a Plainview News review of Luisa in The Fantasticks and a Star Tribune review of the Unicorn in The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. The clippings themselves are not in the files. Those two are noted on the reviews page.

Sources: Zoe’s Resume.doc, Bio for Zoe Pappas.doc, and Best Lead Award.doc.

In the reviews, not on these resumes

Published pieces already on this site name roles that these resume files do not. They are not copied here as resume lines.

• Evita, Theater Latté Da, 2010, title role. Several reviews.
• Circle Mirror Transformation, Hawaii Repertory Theatre, 2011, Theresa. Honolulu Star-Advertiser, under the name Zoe Courneya.
• Chicago Avenue Project, Pillsbury House Theatre, 2010. MPR News names her among the professional actors.
• Musical Mondays at Hell’s Kitchen, September 2014. Cherry and Spoon.

Write-ups are on the reviews page.

Representation she printed

The June 29, 2008 homepage links a Wehmann Models & Talent profile. The public archive pages recovered earlier name no agent. Nothing here says that profile is still active.

Source: Website\old_site_2008\index.htm. The link she published was wehmann.com/profile.php?id=800.

Pages checked that added no credits

• The WordPress “Sample Page” is the software’s example text, including a made-up bike messenger in Los Angeles. That example was not used.
• The Activity page and the Members page have titles and empty bodies.
• The author page repeats the two 2014 posts and the first name Zoe.
• From February 10, 2005 through at least December 15, 2013, robots.txt for zoepappas.com was “Disallow: /”. Homepage captures in that span were not opened. blog.zoepappas.com had no robots.txt (the request returned 404), so that blog was read.
• In the November 24, 2002 archive, school papers, letters, a Hollywood High game, Quicken files, and a blank resume template were not used as credits. Contemporary Resume.doc is that template. Commercials.doc is a French-class script, not a booking.

Archive snapshots used

The public-archive notes below are unchanged. Resume lines above are from her own files, not from these snapshots. Images for the rest of the site were saved into this folder so those pages do not need archive.org after upload.

1. http://zoepappas.com/ — May 27, 2004. Listserv notice.
2. http://zoepappas.com/ — August 29, 2004. Actor page, marked updated 07/19/2004. Same text on December 7, 2004.
3. Name banner — September 11, 2004. Saved as images/name-banner.gif.
4. http://blog.zoepappas.com/ — captured May 17, 2013; posts dated July 2010.
5. http://www.zoepappas.com/ — December 22, 2014. Zoga homepage. The same two posts are on the March 26, 2016 capture.
6. Off to India, March 12! — post dated March 5, 2014; snapshot March 18, 2019.
7. The problem is a marvelous gift — post dated March 20, 2014; snapshot March 18, 2019.
8. Author page for Zoe — April 27, 2017.
9. Beach photograph used as the Zoga background. Saved as images/beach-yoga.jpg. File path is dated January 2014.
10. favicon.ico — October 4, 2017.
11. WordPress site index — January 29, 2019. Confirms the name Zoga and the tagline. It does not list further posts.
12. Sample Page, Activity, and Members — April 2017. Placeholder or empty.
13. Parked homepage — December 29, 2021, and the same notice on September 19, 2024. The same wording is in Website\parked.htm, saved December 8, 2021.
14. Artist Upgrade clients — August 7, 2009. Testimonials — August 8, 2009. The studio’s own description is on the July 4, 2010 homepage.
15. Robots files that blocked the whole site, so those years were skipped: February 10, 2005 and December 15, 2013. Crawling was allowed again, except wp-admin, by December 18, 2014.

An Internet Archive item search for zoepappas and for “Zoe Colglazier” returned no items. A search for the exact phrase “Zoe Pappas” returned one book, Dark Stranger, whose Zoe Pappas is a fictional character. That book was not used. The live Artist Upgrade site had no page for this name.