ZOE AJA
MOORE
Projects
About & CV
Zoe Aja Moore is an LA-based artist and director who works primarily with live performance . Her work has been seen at venues including; The Tank, The Ohio Theater, Williamstown Theater Festival, The Standard Hotel, The Bootleg Theater, and Redcat as well as in galleries & found spaces. Zoe holds an MFA in Directing from California Institute of the Arts.
CV
Zoe Aja Moore 505.577.2817 mobile zoeajamoore.com zoeaja@gmail.com
Selected Directing Credits
2015 Streetcar Named Desire
LAX (Live Arts Exchange) at the Bootleg Theater, LA
2014 Dedicated to a True Lover
Devised
LAX (Live Arts Exchange) at the Bootleg Theater, LA
2014 You Have Arrived
Performance
Ace Hotel, Downtown LA
2014 There Be Dragons
Aleshea Harris
California Institute of the Arts
Guest Director, CalArts
2013 Caucasian Chalk Circle
Bertold Brecht
Co-Director with John Gould Rubin
NYU/Stella Adler
2013 Riding the Midnight Express with Billy Hayes
Co-Director with John Gould Rubin
Edinburgh Fringe
2012 Galatea
Brittany Knupper
California Institute of the Arts
Guest Director
2012 Hedda
Video
Highways Performance Space , LA
2012 Solstice: The Series at the Standard Downtown
Performance
The Standard Downtown, LA
2011 Looking for Lovborg (an experiment with Hedda Gabler)
Devised
RedCat Studio
Los Angeles
2011 Story of the Eye (an electronic opera)
Developed with Kristin Erickson (aka Kevin Blechdom)
Composer, Kristin Erickson
California Institute of the Arts
2011 In Transit: The Series at the Standard Downtown
Presented by Nicole Disson
The Standard Downtown, LA
2011 Summer Eyes
Walker Arts Center, Summer Series, MN
2011 Desire Under the Elms
Eugene O’Neill
Walt Disney Modular Theater
California Institute of the Arts
2010 At Sundown
Devised with Henry Hoke and Ensemble
Edinburgh Fringe Festival/Son of Semele, LA
2010 The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
California Institute of the Arts
2010 Wingstroke
Adapted from Nabokov and devised with Yelena Zhelezov
California Institute of the Arts
2008 Chew You Like Ice
Jesse Cameron Alick
Ohio Theater, NYC
2007 Home Baking Made Easy: a burlesque fairytale
Devised with Lucy Alibar
Williamstown Theater Festival, MA
2007 Mommy Says I’m Pretty on the Insides
Lucy Alibar
Williamstown Theater Festival, MA
2007 Juicy and Delicious
Lucy Alibar
The Tank
*Developed with New Georges
** World Premiere of the play, on which Oscar Nominated Beasts of the Southern Wild was based.
Education and Training
2011 MFA Directing
California Institute of the Arts
2007 Williamstown Theater Festival
2007 SITI Company, Viewpoints and Suzuki Training
2004 BA, Theater, The College of Santa Fe
Teaching Experience
Adjunct Faculty
School of Theater, California Institute of the Arts 2013-present
Adjunct Faculty
School of Theater, Cal State Dominguez Hills 2011-2013
