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She joined the board of AZWTC (Arizona Women's Theatre Company) last year to support women playwrights. “What better place to call home than a theatre that’s specifically supportive of women’s voices?” “Our goal at AZWTC is to bring the low percentage of produced women’s works up to a more appropriate level.”
A working actor (Actor's Equity • Screen Actors Guild • AFTRA) and at times Producer and Director, some of Zoë's favorite roles include Lisa Kron in Well at AZWTC, Ruth Steiner in Donald Margulies’ Collected Stories, Dr. Vivian Bearing in Wit, and as Haley Walker in Theresa Rebeck's Bad Dates.
She originated the role of Margaret in James Riordon’s award winning play, Apollo Redux, and played dual roles in the Washington, D.C. premiere of Emma’s Child, for Horizons' Theater.
On film, Zoë most recently appeared in the feature film, The Five Cent Curve and in All About You, directed by auteur Christine Swanson. Starring roles include Vanessa in Carrots and Onions and K.K.Kettering in the short film, Creole Lady Angelle.
On Television, you’ve seen Zoë in episodes of Law & Order: Special Victims’ Unit, David E. Kelly's The Practice, Strong Medicine, The Drew Carey Show and the ABC Sitcom, Rodney. She earned her Equity card with "the best understudy performance in 20 years" at the Kennedy Center/Eisenhower Theatre in D.C. during a run of The Magic Fire, produced by the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, (directed by Libby Appel).
Production and Director credits include One-Act plays, short films and full-length theatrical productions for AZWTC's Pandora Festival (May 2008) and others. Additionally, she has coached actors in auditioning and acting technique.
Zoë is the athletic type, enjoying every major sport; especially Baseball. She is an avid Golfer and has played courses from the Bay Area to Scottsdale, Arizona to Williamsburg, Virginia. Having learned to Ski in the Austrian Alps, she has skied the Alps of Europe and the Eastern and Western slopes of the United States. Zoë is an avid collector of antique furniture and 20th Century Modern Art and has visited most of the major museums of Europe. Her favorite charities include the Christian Children’s Fund, and The Southern Poverty Law Center, as well. Her three Standard Poodles, Pale Ale(y), Porter and Stout, are the lights of her life. Her Shih Tzu, Barley Wine rounds out her beer-named Pups.
Her latest acquisition, a now 7-year old Paint and gelding is “Zoë’s Situation Comedy”, better known around the farm as “Rolling!” She was on the Board of Directors and was very proudly, the first female Membership Chair of the Friars’ Club of California, is a member of Theatre Artists Studio in Scottsdale, Arizona and is on the Board of Directors and President-Elect of the Arizona Women's Theatre Company.
