Canadian Theatre Encyclopedia
Kydd, Zorana
Actress, producer and theatre critic, Zorana Kydd was born in Serbia, Yugoslavia, and is now based in Toronto, Ontario. She trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) in London, England where she portrayed Rosalind in As You Like It and Lady Anne in Richard III. She also trained at the New Actors Workshop in New York City and with Shakespeare & Co. in Massachusetts. She holds a Ph.D. in Theatre from the University of Toronto.
Ms. Kydd had a lead role in Garden of Delights by Fernando Arrabal (a Spanish playwright who writes in French), which was produced at the Canadian Stage Theatre on Berkeley Street in Toronto in 1994. She also appeared in Pieces of Roses and Black at the Factory Theatre Studio in 1995, a collective creation by World Miracle Theatre based on the writings of Yukio Mishima and the Marquis de Sade; in The Torch-Bearers by American playwright, George Kelly at the Robert Gill Theatre in 2000; and in The Hothouse by Harold Pinter in 2002. In 2003 she acted in the short experimental film Phantasmagoria, made in association with the National Film Board and CBC Television. It is a surreal interpretation of the story of Ann Edson Taylor who went over Niagara Falls in a barrel on October 24, 1901. The film won first prize at Niagara Film Festival.
In 2004 she appeared as Leah in the Canadian premiere of Arthur Miller's The Ride Down Mount Morgan at CanStage Berkeley Mainstage Theatre, and as Frankie in Terrence McNally’s Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune at the Jane Mallett Theatre.
She is currently the Artistic Producer of BirdLand Theatre in Toronto.
Last updated 2009-04-15
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