
PIONEERS #goforth by William Burke
Photo by Kevin Frest
Zoë Geltman is a born and bred New Yorker. She's also a performer and writer. Zoë has been praised by The New York Times for her "delicious comic" and "dazzling" performances, and she has been called a "comic turbo engine" by The New Yorker. Her plays include A(U)NTS!, which The New York Times named one of "13 Off Broadway Shows to See in May" (The Brick/The Hearth/New Georges/Immediate Medium; 2024 Eugene O’Neill National Playwrights Conference semi-finalist, 2024 Himan Brown Award winner); PUFFY HAIR, her existential stand-up show (Vancouver Fringe Festival, The Tank, Big Art Group’s SFX Festival, and The PIT); Lolly, Lolly, Lolly (New Georges-supported workshop; 2020 National Playwrights Conference semi-finalist); A Safe Business (commissioned by La Femme Theatre Productions for the 2025 Women in Agency Festival); This Dump Is A Dump (Bushwick Starr Reading Series) and SEA FRAUD (The Brick). She has developed/produced her work at The Bushwick Starr, The Brick, Salon, Little Theater, Catch, Dixon Place, NACL, Dragon's Egg, and many more. She is a New Georges affiliated artist and a 2026 Brooklyn College Playwriting MFA candidate, where she was a 2024-2025 Rona Jaffe Foundation Fellow.
Performing credits include A Woman Among Women (The Bushwick Starr & upcoming at LCT3), Kara & Emma & Barbara & Miranda (The Tank, Obie Award for Playwriting - Ariel Stess), A(U)NTS! (The Brick), Remember This Trick (Target Margin), Spindle Shuttle Needle (Clubbed Thumb), The World My Mama Raised (Clubbed Thumb), PIONEERS #goforth (JACK), and Evelyn (The Bushwick Starr). She is honored to have performed/developed work with Playwrights Horizons, The Yale Schwarzman Center, The Playwrights’ Center in Minneapolis, Woolly Mammoth Theater, Ensemble Studio Theater, Bard Fisher Center, Japan Society, and New Dramatists, among many others. She also acts, puppeteers, and sings in collaborations by writer Megan Murtha and artist Mark Fox. She is a Clubbed Thumb affiliated artist and was previously a member of The Mercury Store acting company.
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