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. 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. 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 as Polly Baker (replacement),[3]Roxie Hart in Chicago (1998),[4] and Belle Hagner in Teddy & Alice (1987). 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! [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). 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 make s 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.the tortilla curtain american dream essay She performed with the New York City Opera in 110 in the Shade as Lizzie in 1992. white weathermate curtainsThe AP News reviewer wrote: "Ziemba's voice is clear and sweet, exactly what's needed for a song like Is It Really Me?."made to measure curtains redditch[16] She performed the role of Cleo in the City Opera's production of The Most Happy Fella in 1991. eclipse curtains theodoreThe New York Times reviewer wrote: "...her voice had swagger, grainy brashness and brassy energy, undistracted by higher ambitions."

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). She also 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. 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. On television she has appeared on Law & Order and on film in The Producers (2005)[2] and the ill-fated, never released remake of The Devil and Daniel Webster. She and Bill Tatum were married in 1984. ^ ", retrieved January 6, 2017 ^ , accessed October 23, 2013 ^ Crazy for You, Playbill, retrieved January 6, 2017 ^ Lefkowitz, David and Paller, Rebecca and Ku, Andrew.

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, January 28, 2002, April 1, 2004"Christine Baranski, Kelli Barrett, Walter Bobbie, Randy Skinner, Karen Ziemba Cast in Encores! ', April 15, 2013", October 23, 2013"Karen Ziemba Joins Woody Allen's 'Bullets Over Broadway'; , January 9, 2014"How Love Letters Kept Karen Ziemba and Bill Tatum's Long-Distance Romance Alive", Playbill, June 13, 2015 Karen Ziemba and John Bolton Tweet at the Dinner Table in New Musical Social Life Karen Ziemba and John Bolton Explore Their Social Life in Readings of New Musical Lillias White, Chuck Cooper, Karen Ziemba, Linda Eder Celebrate Broadway Musicals of 1997 June 20 March Celebrity Autobiography Kicks Off Tonight Malcolm Gets and Karen Ziemba Set for NYC Shaw Readings New Ryan Murphy Series, Feud: Bette and Joan, Sets Premiere Date Photos: Raul Castillo, Danny Strong, and More at Fade Opening Night Emmy-Winning Tony Awards Director Will Helm Academy Awards HBO Developing Dark Musical Comedy Series