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. She brought her one-woman existential stand-up show, PUFFY HAIR, to the Vancouver Fringe Festival, after performances at New York’s The Tank, Big Art Group’s SFX Festival, and The PIT. Her play A(U)NTS! was a 2024 Eugene O’Neill National Playwrights Conference semi-finalist and is upcoming at The Brick in May 2025, co-produced by The Hearth. Her play Lolly, Lolly, Lolly was developed with the support of New Georges, and was also a National Playwrights Conference semi-finalist in 2020. Her other plays include 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 is a Rona Jaffe Foundation Fellow.

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Performing credits include Kara & Emma & Barbara & Miranda by Ariel Stess (The Tank), 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). Upcoming: Julia May Jonas’s A Woman Among Women, the inaugural show at the newly opened Bushwick Starr, in Fall 2024. She is honored to have performed/developed work at Playwrights Horizons, The Playwrights’ Center in Minneapolis, 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 member of The Mercury Store acting company.

 

Click here to see Zoë's acting resume.

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