Christy Ziss

Christy is an actor, playwright, and producer who has worked in Nova Scotia, Ontario and Australia over the last several decades. She was the General Manager of Lost & Found Theatre for five years before co-founding Theatre Baddeck with her daughter Hannah in 2015. She co-wrote Theatre Baddeck's flagship comedy hit The Young Ladies of Baddeck Club with Hannah, and has also written The Passion, The Rock, two musical dramas that have been produced multiple times in Southern Ontario for a total audience of over 10,000, and The Hydrofoil Mystery (nominated for the Outstanding Adaptation Merritt Award).

Selected stage credits: Shelby and M’Lynn, Steel Magnolias (Kent St. Theatre and Mohawk Dinner Theatre respectively, and twenty years apart!). Also for Mohawk Dinner Theatre: Jacqueline, Don’t Dress for Dinner; Diane, Sinners; Ethel Thayer, On Golden Pond. For Lost and Found Theatre: Fanny Dubeau, Cariboo Magi; Mrs. Dickens/Mrs. Cratchit, Charles Dickens Writes a Christmas Carol; Christine, How It Works; Patti, Kimberly Akimbo.  For Theatre Baddeck: The Young Ladies of Baddeck Club, Harvest, Murder at the Inverary Inn, The Ladies Foursome, Dancing on the Elephant, He'd Be Your Mother's Father's Cousin, Sexy Laundry, Outside Mullingar, Where You Are, Myth of the Ostrich, Half-Cracked.

Selected film and television credits: No Place Like Home (Dwight Storring Productions), Dead Guy Walking (Cineflix), Family Business (Crystalline Productions), Ozion (Triben Entertainment Group), Norbert and the System (Pitcher Pictures).