Queenie van de Zandt is an Australian actress, singer, comedian, recording artist, writer, and arts educator.
[1] Van de Zandt relocated to Sydney in 1992 and began her career performing in musicals and stage plays such as Hair, Cabaret, Les Misérables, Anything Goes, Threepenny Opera, Furious, Barmaids, After January, and The Boy from Oz.
[citation needed] She has since worked extensively in musical theatre, plays, and cabaret, as well as appearing on television and in film and releasing several albums.
As of 2016 she was also regularly performing as her comedy character and alter-ego, Jan van de Stool, a Dutch-born musical therapist.
[2] In 2022, Van de Zandt performed Blue: The Songs of Joni Mitchell.