ZOE ELYSE
MINTZ
Director // Actor // Writer // Producer
THEATER
One of Zoe's current projects is producing the Hunter Underground, a new student art showcase at Hunter College. Zoe recently directed a production of Open for The Tank's LimeFest 2024. As an actor, Zoe has appeared on stage in starring roles for new works at Teatro Latea's New York Theater Festival, Chain Theatre's One Act Theater Festival, and Hunter Theater Department's One Act Theater Festival. Zoe played Gertrude in an adaptation of Hamlet directed by Tony Award winner Gregory Mosher. Zoe wrote her first full-length play, Comfortable, about the trials of a friendship between two queer women.
FILM
Zoe has been immersed in filmmaking projects as a director, producer, actor, and screenwriter. Zoe starred in, co-wrote, and co-produced the short horror film Vibrator Girl, which had its world premiere as a Midnight Short at the 2023 SXSW Film & TV Festival and went on to screen as an official selection for film festivals across the globe. Zoe also appeared as Z the Cat in the music video for Counting Crows' 2021 4-song EP Butter Miracle starring Clifton Collins Jr. (directed by Bill Fishman).
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Previous and concurrent eras include co-producing original immersive theater events with Morgane Ciot as Zorg Productions, two years of AmeriCorps service with at-risk youth in New York City, earning a 2nd-degree brown belt in American kenpo, barista-ing, writing for Underwater Sunshine, modeling for renowned fine artists like Joshua LaRock and Richard Tuschman, competitively hopping, skipping, and jumping into sand pits, and working in the gift shop at the Metropolitan Museum of Art - where she received world-class training on directing tourists to the bathroom.