Adina Katz
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Adina Katz is a Canadian actor.[1]
One-woman play "Be a good girl"
In March 2019 Katz started appearing in a one-woman play, entitled "Be a good girl".[2] Katz wrote, produced and directed the play, as well as appearing in it. The play is a dramatization of her own rape, and has been praised for her honesty and fearlessness.[3]
Katz harrassment after being the victim of mistaken identity
In August Katz was the target of ill-informed critics, after Andrew Scheer, leader of the Conservative Party released a video where a woman, who said her name was Adina, identified herself as a cancer survivor, and praised Scheer's policies on health care.[1][4] Some critics of Scheer leaped to the conclusion that the woman who claimed to be a cancer survivor was actually an actor. Since the woman in ad bore a passing resemblance to Katz, and they shared a first name, some critics of Scheer leaped to the further conclusion that Katz had agreed to act in the ad, and falsely present herself as a cancer survivor.
Katz described alarming harrassment. However, several of the original critics who started spreading the meme deleted their tweets, and offered her apologies.[1][4]
In an interview on the CBC's As it happens, Katz said she found the apologies unsatisfactory.[5]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Brian Lilley (2019-08-13). "Woman in anti-immigrant rant sent to CAMH". Toronto Sun. https://torontosun.com/news/local-news/scheer-condemns-woman-filmed-yelling-racial-slurs-spitting-in-toronto. Retrieved 2019-12-06. "This story comes just a week after Scheer had to deal with a claim, driven in part by Liberal partisans, that he had hired an actress to say she was supporting him after her bout with cancer. That woman, Adina Katz, has told various media outlets that she had faced online bullying and cruelty."
- ↑ Janice Arnold (2019-03-13). "WOMAN RELIVES HER RAPE ONSTAGE IN CANDID SHOW". Canadian Jewish News. https://www.cjnews.com/culture/entertainment/woman-relives-her-rape-onstage-in-candid-show. Retrieved 2019-12-06. "The title refers to the message Katz received as a child, like other girls then and even now, to be nice and look pretty – all those dos and don’ts that will make them pleasing to men. She was fed the Cinderella dream of finding her Prince Charming and living happily ever after."
- ↑ Andee Shuster (2019-03-05). "BWW Previews: BE A GOOD GIRL at Segal Centre". Broadway World. https://www.broadwayworld.com/montreal/article/BWW-Previews-BE-A-GOOD-GIRL-at-Segal-Centre-20190305. Retrieved 2019-12-06. "Well, one more actress has joined the #MeToo ranks and has turned her own experiences into art. Having garnered lots of attention at the Toronto Fringe Fest, Adina Katz brings her solo performance of Be a Good Girl to Montreal audiences at The Segal Centre March 6-11."
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Anja Kundacina (2019-08-14). "Canadian Actress Bullied Ruthlessly After Getting Misidentified In Scheer Campaign Video: Adina Katz says she's deeply hurt by the misinformed accusations.". Narcity. https://www.narcity.com/news/ca/woman-in-andrew-scheer-campaign-video-is-actually-a-misidentified-canadian-actress. Retrieved 2019-12-06. "Adina told The Montreal Gazette, 'I know I’m sensitive, but it really touched a nerve when people accused me of pretending to be a cancer survivor. My father died of cancer, two of my uncles died of cancer and my friends have died of cancer.'"
- ↑ Sheena Goodyear; Ashley Mak (2019-08-12). "Montreal actress faces barrage of hate after being falsely ID'd as woman in Andrew Scheer video". As it happens. https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/as-it-happens-monday-edition-1.5243876/montreal-actress-faces-barrage-of-hate-after-being-falsely-id-d-as-woman-in-andrew-scheer-video-1.5244313. Retrieved 2019-12-06. "But the apologies are too little, too late, says Katz. 'I'm not satisfied with their apologies because they're not really genuinely taking responsibility for their actions of one human to another, or a group of humans to another,' she said."
