Zoe Lesser is a director and choreographer working in theater, opera, and dance.
She has directed and developed work with New Mexico Actor’s Lab, Aspen Music Festival, Morgan-Wixson Theater, Santa Fe Opera, Santa Fe Pro Musica, The Tank, Hollywood Fringe Festival, Santa Fe Playhouse, Chicago Dramatists and RhinoFest. Recent productions include Heroes of the Fourth Turning by Will Arbery, a body-horror re-imagining of Agnes of God by John Pielmeier , and The Nether by Jennifer Haley.
Zoe has had the privilege of working as an assistant director to Shelley Butler, Les Waters, Sara Erde, Joanna Gleason, Dylan Evans, Greg Eldridge, Katherine M. Carter, and Vanessa Stalling.
She has served on the Dance Faculty at the Colburn School and at the National Dance Institute, New Mexico. She has presented choreography at Keshet Dance and Center for the Arts in Albuquerque and at the Detroit City Dance Festival, in addition to dancing in dive bars, street corners, and moving trains across the USA. She is an alumna of Jacob’s Pillow.
Zoe is a co-founder of The Exodus Ensemble, an immersive theater company based in Santa Fe, NM.