ELZABÉ ZIETSMAN


Elzabé Zietsman's prolific career has seen her on stage, television, in cabaret and film productions. She has performed all over the country and is widely known to audiences for her starring role in M-Net's popular soap, Egoli. In the mid-90's during a run of her shows in Windhoek, she was spotted by a musical director who urged her to apply for the title role of Evita for a summer festival in Germany. Elzabé performed Evita in 1996 in German and was invited back in 1997 to perform the role of Velma in Chicago and in 2000 the narrator in Cabaret, all in German. She was allocated solo cabaret shows at the festival, which proved extremely popular with German audiences. In 1998 she performed Brecht for the Goethe Institute who invited her to Berlin in 1999 to further her studies in German.

Elzabé was directed by David Kramer in Jol and Janice Honeyman in True Confusions. She played Wallice Simpson in Pieter -Toerien's Her Royal Highness and worked with Casper de Vries in Ziets & de Vries, which took the country by storm in 1990. In 2000 Elzabé and Amanda Strydom performed the sell-out, Strydom & Zietsman in Alphabetical Order. In addition to her numerous one-woman shows, she has starred in Darrel Roodt's film, The Stick and the internationally released film, River of Death. In 2000, she played the lead in the highly acclaimed Deon Opperman musical, Vere.

Elzabé recorded her debut CD, "XIII" in 1999 and toured with her show by the same name the following year. She has performed with many highly respected South African artists and regularly performs her cabaret shows for corporate functions.