Zoe Templeman-Young

Director

Zoë trained as an actor at RADA before becoming a freelance director and dramaturg.
She was shortlisted for 2024 JMK Award, was the 2021 Jerwood Associate Director on Hamlet (Young Vic) and is the artistic director of the award-winning verbatim company, Écoute Theatre. Her play, Take Care, was published in 2020 by Nick Hern Books.
Her credits at the Young Vic include a newly commissioned short from Marina Carr (DEMETER, Five Shorts) and The Collaboration, as director on placement.
Other credits include; dramaturg on New Adventures’ 2024 Doorstep Duets production HUM (created by Anjali Mehra) and directing A Quiet Voice (Amy Rosenthal) and 46 Jews (Richard Katz) as part of Emanate Productions, Kiln Theatre.
Zoë is a visiting director at RWCMD (Angels in America [2023], The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage [2022], Indecent [2022]) and Drama Studio, and is an Associate Director at RADA.
She is a mentor to refugee actors at TWWR and helps support creatives of all ages starting their careers in theatre.

Credits

DRAMATURG
Hum (created by Anjali Mehra)
Doorstep Duets Tour, New Adventures (2024)

DIRECTOR
Flicker (Gabriela Foley)
Pleasance Dome, Edinburgh Fringe 2024 (4* Scotsman)

Demeter (new commission from Marina Carr)
Young Vic : Five Shorts (2023)

Angels in America (Tony Kushner)
RWCMD (2023)

Tracks (Sophie Kisilevsky)
Hen & Chickens (2023)

The Bright Bright Black (Fred Fergus)
The Criterion : Industry Reading (feat. Danny Sapani, Lucy Cohu) (2023)

The Book of Dust : La Belle Sauvage (a premier of a new edit with Bryony Lavery)
RWCMD (2022)

Sex, Love and Rising Sea Levels (Sam Thorpe-Spinks)
The Pappy Show : R&D (2022)

Indecent (Paula Vogel)
RWCMD (2022)

A Quiet Voice (Amy Rosenthal)
46 Jews (Richard Katz)
Kiln : Emanate - A Night of Jewish Writing (2022)

ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR
Hamlet (William Shakespeare)
Young Vic (2021)


DIRECTOR ON PLACEMENT
The Collaboration (Anthony McCarten)
Young Vic (2022)

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR
The Ballad of Hattie and James (Sam Adamson)
Kiln (dir. Richard Twyman, 2024)

Training

BA Acting, RADA, 2014-2017
Theatre, Performance and Cultural Practice, Warwick University, 2010-2013 (1st Class Honours)

Location

London

Experience

2-5 years

Art forms / Disciplines

  • Comedy
  • Dance
  • Film - documentary
  • Film - short
  • Photography
  • Theatre / Live perfomance

What I do

  • Devising
  • Dialect / Voice Direction
  • Directing
  • Dramaturgy
  • Editing
  • Movement Direction
  • Teaching / Coaching
  • Theatre making
  • Verbatim theatre
  • Working with young people
  • Workshopping & Development
  • Writing

Additional Languages

French

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