Zoe Lesser is a director and choreographer working in theater, opera, and dance. 

Her work ranges from site-specific, intimate, moments with actors to multidisciplinary works with visually arresting imagery.

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 Agnes of God by John Pielmeier, The Nether by Jennifer Haley, and The Telephone by Gian Carlo Menotti.

Zoe has worked as an assistant director to Sara Erde, Joanna Gleason, Les Waters, Greg Eldridge, and Vanessa Stalling, among others. Productions include The Marriage of Figaro (Aspen Opera Theater), Hansel and Gretel (Aspen Opera Theater), No Man’s Land (Steppenwolf Theatre Company)  and others at  Chicago Opera Theater, Court Theater, and The Neo-Futurist Theater.

She is currently on Tap Dance Faculty at the Colburn School, and was previously on Dance Faculty 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 2022, she was awarded the Changing Times Initiative Tap grant alongside Louise Reichlin to archive the legacy of the late Tap Dancer, Alfred Desio. 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. She collaborated on creating Ivanov, Bathsheba, and The Exodus Experience on Sky Railway, the first two of which are still running today.

You can check out her resumé here.