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 last year released her vlog series Jessie & Mia on YouTube, which she wrote/directed/edited AND starred in.
Zoe is a co-convenor of the Equity Youth Committee.
Full Biography
Short Film
2024 - Our Party - Taylor - Director - Joshua Prenderville
2024 - Flat Cat - Heather - AUT
2024 - Glass Eyes - SAE Institute
2024 - Keepsake - Bus Stop Productions
2023 - Pay Back - Amber - Director - Mia Blake - Toi Whakaari
2023 - Blue Skies - Lucy - Director - Sol Maxwell - Toi Whakaari
2023 - Te Whare Pōuri - Edith - Director - Nova Moala-Knox - Toi Whakaari
2023 - Encounter - Hannah - Yoobee School of Design
2023 - Suck It Up - Louise - Director - Jade-Emily Kruger - Victoria University
2023 - Twenty Years Buried - Lead - Director - Finn Culver - Massey University
2022 - Life of the Party - Jordan - Director - Finn Culver - Bus Stop Productions
2022 - The Arcobaleno Home - Berry (voice) - Massey University
2021 - A Girl Called Elvis - Carol - Director - Lindsay Christopherson
2020 - Snare - Hailey - Massey University
2018 - Return to Fable Grove - Eden - Massey University
Commercial
2024 - Scorched Almonds - NZ only
Web-series
2024 - Jessie & Mia - Jessie (lead) - Director - Zoe Crane
Theatre
2024 - U R BACK - Performer - Director - Jo Randerson
2023 - The Birthday Girl - Lisa/Young Woman - Director - Carrie Green - Toi Whakaari
2022 - Fairydust & Photographs - Margaret - Toi Whakaari
2022 - Mimic Another - Performer - Director - Ross McCormac - Toi Whakaari
2022 - In Blind Faith - Ava - Toi Whakaari
2022 - Orokohanga - Performer - Director - Nī Dekkers-Reihana - Toi Whakaari
2021 - Antigone - Ismene - Director - Heather Timms - Toi Whakaari
2020 - A Midsummer Night's Dream - Moth - Wellington Summer Shakespeare dir. Shane Bosher
2024 - Actors Lab Studio with Peter Feeney
2024 - Queer Story Workshop with Proud Voices on Screen
2023 - 2024 - Wellington Youth Choir
2024 - Inner Work with Brita McVeigh
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)
Climbing
Drawing
Accents - American, British Accent