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BIO
Her work explores the family, relationships and sexuality, illness and disability, and how technology is changing our inner lives. She is interested in how we come to know each other, and believes that people are always more complicated than we expect.
Zoe began her directing career in documentaries at the BBC, and her writing career in theatre. She now makes drama which combines the dialogue and structural craft of a playwright with the specificity of a documentarian. Her process often incorporates documentary techniques, and she enjoys working in collaboration with artists or contributors with experience of the themes of her work.
Her films have played at Oscar & BAFTA qualifying festivals, been broadcast on BBC Four and BBC Scotland and online on Nowness and Vimeo as a Staff Pick, and been funded by the BFI and BBC. Her plays have been Offie-nominated, short and long-listed for mul tiple awards, and produced at leading Off-West End theatres.
Zoe is a BAFTA Connect writer/director, an associate member of Directors UK and also lectures part time at LSBU on the BA Filmmaking. She also holds a first-class degree in Physics & Philosophy (BSc), and sees analytical parallels between philosophy, maths and dramatic structure.
Her latest play “1:17am” will transfer in 2026, after a sold-out short run at Theatre 503 in July 2025. Her latest short film, REXY, is on the festival circuit. She is developing long form projects across film, theatre and television.
The BFI / BFI Network / BBC Arts / BBC Scotland / The Scottish Documentary Institute / Creative Scotland / Arts Council England / Independent Cinema Office / Theatre 503 / Finborough Theatre / Arcola Theatre / Kings Head Theatre / New Diorama Theatre.
ALUMNUS OF
Soho Theatre Writers / Finborough Writers Group / Bristol Old Vic New Voices / North Wall Theatrecraft / Lyric Hammersmith New Voices, Camden Roundhouse New Voices
AWARDS
AS FILMMAKER / WRITER & DIRECTOR
SHORTLISTED
SHORTLISTED
WON
WON
NOMINATED
NOMINATED
Primetime Empowerment Fund: REXYShiny Award: Solace Women’s Aid Campaign
Miles Ketley Bursary, Independent Cinema Office
Kats Award for Best First Film, Together Film Festival: ILL, ACTUALLY
Best Director, Women X Film Festival: ILL, ACTUALLY
Phyllis Crocker Award, Ealing Film Festival: LARA
2024
2024
2023
2020
2020
2019
AS WRITER
LONGLISTED
LONGLISTED
LONGLISTED
NOMINATED
SHORTLISTED
Theatre 503 Playwriting: 1:17AM
BBC Writersroom Drama Entries: 1:17am
Theatre 503 Playwriting: Laird (unproduced script)
OFFIE Award - Best Ensemble, Best Director, Best Procution: Gap in the Light
Yale Drama Prize: Cecilia
2019
2019
2018
2017
2016
SELECTED PRESS
★★★★
Everything Theatre, on Zoe’s play 1:17am at Theatre 503, 2025
“Fantastic. Beautifully observed.”
SIGHT & SOUND, on Zoe’s short film Better at London Film Festival 2023
“a pertinent reminder of the wider need for empathy still missing in contemporary society.”
Directors Notes, on Zoe’s short film ill, actually at Shortest Nights Festival 2019
"Superbly-crafted… part neatly understated domestic drama, part Stanley Kubrick psychological thriller."
★★★★ The Stage, on Zoe’s play with Engineer Theatre, Gap In The Light at the New Diorama 2017
"extremely well written... the writing really is first class"
★★★★ London Theatre One, on Zoe’s play Cecilia at the Kings Head Theatre 2015