Theatre Director
For Schools
For Young People
For Everyone
Zoe is a visionary theatre director celebrated for her dynamic and collaborative approach to storytelling and her ability to inspire and motivate the ensembles she facilitates. She supports her casts and crews to take creative risks in a space that values wellbeing, fostering an environment where artistry and collaboration thrive.
With a passion for creating bold, innovative productions, Zoe brings a deep understanding of theatrical styles and contemporary techniques to her dramatic processes. Her aesthetic is drawn from past and present innovations in physical theatre and her directorial style emphasises authenticity, artistic excellence, and meaningful audience engagement.
Zoe’s work often explores social and political themes that demand audiences are active in the theatrical experience and transformed through the process, reflecting her commitment to theatre as a vehicle for change.
What People Are Saying
'Zoe is able to express her creative vision clearly. She has a strong aesthetic and understands what is arresting visually and vocally.
She is a good communicator and great networker. She is also genuinely interested in the people she works with; in the story they are conveying and in the audience reception to the work.
She is passionate about giving her audience a memorable experience.'
BRIAN WALSH
Production Manager- BLM Production Services
'Leading a great team, Zoe staged Strictly Ballroom- a complex musical- with a stellar result.
Courage and creativity were at the very centre of her approach.
She is a first-class leader, negotiator, mentor, and motivator across the myriad of tasks that a terrific producer and director must master.'
GRAEME KEARNS
CEO- Foundation Theatres
'Zoe’s leadership and creative practice is innovative and inspired while being informed by theatrical traditions and directorial and leadership practices that guarantee work of the highest calibre.
She is informed by the 25 years of experience she has a theatre artist, leader and educator.’
LYNNE BRADLEY
Founder/ Director- Zen Zen Zo Physical Theatre
Theatre Direction
Adelaide Fringe Festival 2021- 2022
Parlour Games, Story Monsters (SAYArts)
Zen Zen Zo Physical Theatre
Creative Entrepreneur Intern 2020- Various Works
Pembroke School Performing Arts/ Concordia College Performing Arts/ Oakhill College Performing Arts
Director/ Deviser/ Movement Director of Theatrical Productions
The Government Inspector (2024), Blackrock (2024), The Real Inspector Hound (2023), All Shook Up (2023), Oliver (2022), Urinetown (2020) A Midsummer Night's Dream (2020), Oliver (2019) The Servant of Two Masters (2019), The Changing Room (2019) Strictly Ballroom (2018), Romanoff and Juliet (2018) Journey's End (2018) Boys Own McBeth (2017), The Bourgeois Gentleman (2017)The 39 Steps (2017), Starlight Express (2016), Two Weeks With The Queen (2016), And Then There Were None (2016), Bats (2015), Animal Farm (2015), Black Comedy (2015), Miss Saigon (2014), Alone It Stands (2014) Shakespeare In Hollywood (2014), Tin Pan Ali (2013), 12 Angry Men (2013), Rumours (2013), Cats (2012), Lord Of The Flies (2012), The Imaginary Invalid (2012), Smike (2011), Rusty Bugles (2011), The Government Inspector (2011), Paris (2010), A Few Good Men (2010), Amadeus (2010), Treasure Island (2009), Billy Budd (2009), All Shook Up (2008), The Sting (2008), Man Alive (2008),The Dracula Rock Show (2007), A Christmas Truce (2007), Cosi (2007), Jesus Christ Superstar (2006), The Thwarting of Baron Bolligrew (2006), The Importance of Being Earnest (2006).
