Zoe Aja Moore

Zoe Aja Moore is an artist and director who makes new performance, theater, and opera. She uses practices that are both experimental and rigorous to make work that is visceral and visual, exploring new forms to locate story in the body and articulate a female experience.  

Her work has been presented by LACMA, REDCAT, Prototype Festival, Long Beach Opera, STUDIO teatrgaleria in Warsaw, Beth Morrison Projects, The Ford, SFMOMA, Los Angeles Philharmonic, National Sawdust, HERE Art Center, CalArts Center for New Performance (CNP), National Gallery of Singapore, Williamstown Theater Festival, LAX Festival, the Tank, home LA, and the Theater at the Ace Hotel, among others. 

As an educator Zoe has taught and been a guest artist at institutions that include University of Michigan, NYU, UCLA, CalState Dominguez Hills, and CalArts. Originally from New York City, Zoe is a member of the Lincoln Center Director’s Lab and holds an MFA in Directing from California Institute of the Arts.