For the past five years I have been, serendipitously, at the helm of artistic projects and it has been a total joy to find my footing as a director! 2022-2024 WP Lab member, current New Georges Jam Cohort, Mercury Store Directors Lab fall 2024

Malicious Complience written by Amara/AJ Brady

Performed by Jade Jones, Nora Schell and Lorinda Lisitza

Produced by Precious Wilson-Gay SM Kyra Bowie Lights Megan Lang Set Erica Zhang, Music Xander Browne, Costumes Ásta Bennie Hostetter and Jules Kulaya Sound Chris Darbassie

Mo and Yuri sit under an almost non-existent potted tree named Beckett, waiting impatiently for the next phase of their career — the next part of their journey. Delores sings a song about the blood the land craves, a callous warning that the blood is the only thing that will allow them to ascend to the glory Mo and Yuri believe is possible. Inspired by Waiting for Godot, Malicious Compliance tells the story of two artists desperately waiting for a change that may cost more than they’re willing to give, or worse may never come.

WP Pipeline Festival

PUFFY HAIR

written and performed by Zoë Geltman

PUFFY HAIR is a night of existential stand-up performed by an id. Using Vaudeville-cum-Fosse dance moves to investigate one woman's ambivalent and tortured relationship to the male gaze, which she alternately cozies up to and execrates, it is a catharsis of self-hatred, body dysmorphia, and self-aggrandizement. A vigorous dose of lipstick smears and shoulder pads. A marriage between Joan Rivers and gastrointestinal turbulence. A struggle to hold space for the existential pressure of a bun. A boopity boop.

"Zoë Geltman's 'PUFFY HAIR' transforms beyond stand-up comedy to shocking and delicious intimacy... [the audience is] invited into Geltman's extravagant mind palace of feminine guts and glory... she zips and bops around the space, capturing a caricatured showman's energy akin to Joan Rivers meeting Liza Minnelli... The writing plays like a vigorous plea for intimacy with herself, a self-deprecating, self-aware routine as investigative and piercing as anyone's truest inner monologue talking to themselves in a mirror." -Nataline Rine, Onstage Blog

"Add wigs, impromptu handstands, plenty of always-relatable self-loathing, and a fascination with everyone from Joan Rivers to Bob Fosse and you've got something that sounds almost as awesome as lunch with Sarah Silverman. Or Paul Verhoeven's Showgirls." - The Georgia Straight

"A Fabulously Feral Feminist Fantasia... with Farts," Culturebot

Performance History

Vancouver Fringe Festival, September 2023

The Tank, November 2021: set & costumes by Enver Chakartash and lighting by Sarah Lurie

Big Art Group's SFX Festival, February 2018

The PIT, December 2017

The Tank, November 2017

Uncanny Valley, August 2017

Sea Fraud written by Zoë Geltman

Performed by Zoë Geltman, Maggie Katz and Ugo Chukwu

SM Blaze Ferrer, Set Christopher Heilman, Costumes Ásta Bennie Hostetter, Lights Ebony Burton, Sound Jeff Aaron Bryant

A surrealist jaunt through office politics, friendship, the writing process, and the very strange experience of being a person living and eating in America.

Premiered at The Brick Theater in Williamsburg, Brooklyn

A(U)NTS! had a developmental workshop with The Hearth Theater Company in November 2023, with a public reading at 59E59 and will be produced by the Brick in May 2025.

Performed by Zoë Geltman, Megan Hill, and Jehan Young. Directed by Julia Sirna-Frest. Designed by Mark Fox.