Zoe Crane
ActorZoe is an emerging actor and filmmaker who recently graduated from Toi Whakaari: NZ Drama School.
In her final year of high school, Zoe was awarded NZQA Top Scholar in New Zealand for Drama. The same year she directed a full-length production of Shakespeare's The Tempest, and has since worked as a drama tutor for the Wellington College Shakespeare Festival.
She starred in the short film A Girl Called Elvis, which was selected at multiple international film festivals and won the Audience Award and Best Short at the London International Film Festival. She is a core member of an award-winning Wellington-based collective, Bus Stop Productions; and recently released her vlog series Jesse & Mia on YouTube, which she wrote/directed/edited AND starred in.
Zoe is a member of the Equity Youth Committee and Wellington Youth Choir.
Full Biography
Short Film
2023 - Pay Back - Amber - Toi Whakaari - dir. Mia Blake
2023 - Blue Skies - Lucy - Toi Whakaari - dir. Sol Maxwell
2023 - Te Whare Pōuri - Edith - Toi Whakaari - dir. Nova Moala-Knox
2023 - Encounter - Hannah - Yoobee School of Design - dir. Amelia Addis
2023 - Suck It Up - Louise - Victoria University - dir. Jade-Emily Kruger
2023 - Twenty Years Buried - Lead - Massey University - dir. Finn Culver
2022 - Life of the Party - Jordan - Bus Stop Productions - dir. Finn Culver
2022 - Eagle vs Shark - Lily - Toi Whakaari dir. Vaughan Slinn
2022 - The Arcobaleno Home - Berry (voice) - Massey University
2021 - A Girl Called Elvis - Carol - dir. Lindsay Christopherson
2020 - Snare - Hailey - Massey University
2018 - Return to Fable Grove - Eden - Massey University
Theatre
2024 - U R BACK - Performer - Director - Jo Randerson
2023 - The Birthday Girl - Lisa/Young Woman - Toi Whakaari - dir. Carrie Green
2022 - Fairydust & Photographs - Margaret
2022 - Mimic Another - Performer - Toi Whakaari - Director - Ross McCormac
2022 - In Blind Faith - Ava
2022 - Orokohanga - Performer - Toi Whakaari - Director - Nī Dekkers-Reihana
2021 - Antigone - Ismene - Toi Whakaari - Director - Heather Timms
2020 - A Midsummer Night's Dream - Moth - Wellington Summer Shakespeare dir. Shane Bosher
2024 - Audition Technique Workshop with Jessica Grace Smith
2021 - 2023 - Bachelor of Performing Arts - Toi Whakaari: NZ Drama School
2019 - 2020 - Wizz Theatre Academy - Musical Theatre
2018 - Rata Studios Miranda Harcourt's Professional Teen Acting
2019 - Trinity College London Grade 7 Performance Arts (Distinction)