Zo (pronouns: they, them, theirs) is a San Francisco born, Lenapehoking/NYC based, Jewish Japanese American queer neurodivergent performer.
TV: Recurring guest star on American Horror Story Season 12: Delicate (FX, Hulu), Only Murders in the Building (Hulu, Disney+), Dickinson (Apple TV). Zo’s appeared in several indie films, including selections for screenings at Newfest and Outfest.
Theatre: INTAR, Playwright’s Horizons, Pan Asian Rep at Theatre Row, Red Bull, Cherry Lane Theatre, Breaking the Binary, Westchester Broadway Theatre, Access Theatre, Frigid Fest, The American Museum of Natural History, and TheaterWorksUSA… Workshops at Roundabout Theatre, NYTW, The Playwright’s Realm, New Dramatists, CSC/Oregon Shakes Play On! festival, Rattlestick, WP Theatre, The Movement Theatre, The Acting Company, The Lark, Faultline Theater, Huntington Theater Company, Playbill.com, and The Actors Fund.
Zo has narrated on Apple News for The New Yorker, New York Magazine, and Bloomberg, and has been featured in dramatic podcasts, including Play On!/OSF’s collaboration with Next Chapter Podcasts.
Zo has sung with Opera on Tap, Dell’Arte Opera, Underworld Productions Opera, Garden State Opera, Manhattan Opera Studio, at Birdland (with Ring of Keys), in Times Square, at Spectrum NYC, and at the Joventuts Musicals Festival in Barcelona.
Zo has been described as “the biggest badass onstage,” “a gracefully athletic faerie,” and “endearingly twitchy,” portraying characters from Hamlet to Puck, from a frustrated tech genius to a bo-staff-wielding three-headed kitsune spirit (yatta!).
Zo studied Meisner for 3 years with Paul Perez, scene study with Larry Singer for about a decade, and Lucid Body with Fay Simpson. With Gwendolyn Schwinke, Zo delved into Feldenkrais for actors, Linklater, and Viewpoints. Zo has taken intensives in Kinetic Awareness with Francis Becker, Peking Opera movement with Liu Mianzong and Zhang Yanhong, about 100 hours of yoga teacher training, has studied fundamentals of ballet, Cunningham, and tap dance, and has learned a variety of stage combat techniques on the job. Zo completed Improv 101, 201, and 301 at the Upright Citizens Brigade NYC Training Center taught by James III and Molly Thomas.
Zo earned a Bachelor of Music in Vocal Performance with Highest Honors from SUNY Binghamton, completed coursework in the Master of Music programs at SUNY Binghamton and Hunter College, and studied classical singing with the legendary Benita Valente, as well as Maxine Davis, Carol Yahr, Peyton Hibbitt. Zo currently studies with Sarah K Brown and Geddy Warner, and has coached contemporary and musical theater singing styles with Lilli Wosk.
Zo plays guitar, piano, ukulele, and a bit of drums and violin.
They are a NASM Certified Personal Trainer, and Guild Certified Feldenkrais Practitioner.
Zo is represented by Jamie Harris and Justin Busch at Clear Talent Group.
They are a proud member of SAG-AFTRA and Actors Equity.