Featured Artist Francine Wolf
Francine Wolf’s Bio
Francine Wolf is an actor, singer, comedienne, improviser, and woman of many voices. She is a performance artist who began studying acting at age forty, has thirty years of stage, screen and commercial experience, is a SAG-AFTRA member, and has been a member and founder of assorted improv groups in Ohio and Florida since the mid-90’s, teaching improv to children in Tampa and to vacationers from around the world on cruise ships. Born in Brooklyn, New York, after graduating from the State University of New York in Oswego, travels took her to Miami, Columbus, Ohio where she raised her son and daughter, and to Tampa Bay in 2000. Some favorite theatre roles include: Bitsy Mae Harlin in Sordid Lives, Eve Envy at Tampa’s Side Splitters Comedy Club in the national touring show of Penis Dialogues; Maria in Lend Me a Tenor at the Early Bird Dinner Theatre, Renee in The Female Version of The Odd Couple at Angel Cabaret; Rose Kennedy in Oh, Jackie!, a world premier, Mrs. Gnocchi in Joey and Maria’s Comedy Wedding, and Jacqueline in La Cage Aux Folles and Calonice in American Stage’s Lysistrata. As a seasoned voice over artist, one of her most famous voices is that of “Princess Babs,” the Long Island Jewish Princess Trash Talker Doll, which is a collector’s item.
She is a member of SAG-AFTRA, past president of Senior Repertory of Ohio, was on the board of the former Gorilla Theatre in Tampa and adjudicates for high school district Thespian Festivals in Florida. She formed her company, ZaZu Productions, L.L.C. in 2010, and tours memory care, assisted living and other elder communities with her musical duo: “ZaZu’s Revue.”
Francine’s solo improv show appeared in Tampa in 2018 at the Tampa International Fringe Festival, the Countdown Improv Festival and in Boston at the Vintage Improv Festival, playing with other elders. “Half-Baked Boomer,” her newest solo performance improv show, has lots of audience interaction, participation, laughter, drama, home-baked delights and fun! Take the journey through different scenes and games with a half-baked ditzy boomer and child of the 50’s showing us that seniors can age gracefully or maybe not! “Half-Baked Boomer” will be traveling to the Rogue Fringe Festival in Fresno, California in March, and the Indy Fringe Festival in August.
Learn more at: ZaZuProductions.com; @halfbaked_boomer on Instagram