Zoe Kamil

Zoe Kamil

Zoe Kamil is a Zoe Kamil is a playwright, theatre artist, and educator. Her plays have been developed at The Workshop Theatre, Dixon Place, The Tank, SheNYC Arts, Young Playwrights Inc., and the New York International Fringe Festival among others. Her writing has been published on Howlround.com and in the Proscenium Journal.

As former Associate Director of Semicolon Theatre Company, an...
Zoe Kamil is a Zoe Kamil is a playwright, theatre artist, and educator. Her plays have been developed at The Workshop Theatre, Dixon Place, The Tank, SheNYC Arts, Young Playwrights Inc., and the New York International Fringe Festival among others. Her writing has been published on Howlround.com and in the Proscenium Journal.

As former Associate Director of Semicolon Theatre Company, an organization dedicated to the development of new work by and for young people, she co-produced three seasons of Off-Off Broadway premieres in NYC. She has taught theatre, playwriting and more through TDF (Theatre Development Fund), Marquis Studios, and the New York Public Library. Zoe holds a B.A. in Writing for the Stage from Marymount Manhattan College and is pursuing a Masters in Theatre Education at Emerson College. She is a theater teacher in Boston Public Schools.

Plays

  • does it hurt when I do this? by Zoe Kamil
    Cast: 
    5–10
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy + 5 more
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    Keyword: gender nonbinary, femme + 8 more
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy, drama, experimental, horror, political, satire
    Keyword: gender nonbinary, femme, access to medical care, reproductive care, pain, assault, doctor-patient relationship, History, prescription drug abuse, Recovery
    Where does G's unnamed pain begin, and where will it end? Maybe we should ask the experts. Wait. The experts don't know either?! Bending time and spanning decades, this is a story about our weird bodies, and the people we trust to care for them.
  • girl power sex positive joy ride by Zoe Kamil
    Recommendations: 3
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    Cast: 
    5
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    Genre: dark comedy, drama + 1 more
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    Keyword: American education, public school + 7 more
    Genre: dark comedy, drama, political
    Keyword: American education, public school, English Teachers, sexting, pregnancy, American suburbs, school to prison pipeline, educational inequity, intersections of racism and sexism
    Best friends Mary and Karla are teachers at the same middle class suburban high school they attended together. When straight-laced, insecure Karla sends a tasteful nude that ends up in the wrong hands, old dynamics are called into question and a pair of teens have some very grown-up decisions to make.
  • FATCHLEY by Zoe Kamil
    Cast: 
    7
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    Genre: drama
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    Keyword: sexual assault, trauma + 7 more
    Genre: drama
    Keyword: sexual assault, trauma, eating disorders, family, legacy, journalism, elitism, nepotism, mental illness
    After a public nervous breakdown, Brooklyn actress Reina is determined to make a comeback when she signs on to a production of her best friend’s buzzed-about new play. Meanwhile, Reina’s boyfriend Clay has been assigned to profile a legendary theatre critic for his magazine - and the couple begins to see the light at the end of a rocky patch in their shared life. But as they embark on their respective projects...
    After a public nervous breakdown, Brooklyn actress Reina is determined to make a comeback when she signs on to a production of her best friend’s buzzed-about new play. Meanwhile, Reina’s boyfriend Clay has been assigned to profile a legendary theatre critic for his magazine - and the couple begins to see the light at the end of a rocky patch in their shared life. But as they embark on their respective projects, they discover that the pain, legacy, and power that dictated their past is not as far removed as they would like to believe.
  • untitled San Francisco play by Zoe Kamil
    Cast: 
    5–6
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    Genre: comedy, drama + 1 more
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    Keyword: San Francisco, gentrification + 5 more
    Genre: comedy, drama, political
    Keyword: San Francisco, gentrification, mental illness, LGBTQ, siblings, grief, city
    In San Francisco, 4 young adults grapple with home. A high school teacher begins a new relationship with an alluring Silicon Valley Transplant. A 22-year-old woman is released from a mental institution and faces 21st-century adulthood. And a soon to be high-school graduate tries to outrun (and out-paint) the unthinkable darkness of her past. As their lives intersect, they see their city through each other’s...
    In San Francisco, 4 young adults grapple with home. A high school teacher begins a new relationship with an alluring Silicon Valley Transplant. A 22-year-old woman is released from a mental institution and faces 21st-century adulthood. And a soon to be high-school graduate tries to outrun (and out-paint) the unthinkable darkness of her past. As their lives intersect, they see their city through each other’s eyes, and it isn’t always as pretty as the view from the Golden Gate Bridge. Endemic creatures is about the arbitrary meaning that we ascribe to the places our lives play out in - cities, apartments, streets - the families we make, and the systems that shape and fail us.
  • #BLESSED by Zoe Kamil
    Cast: 
    12–17
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    Genre: dark comedy, drama
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    Keyword: religion, Sex + 5 more
    Genre: dark comedy, drama
    Keyword: religion, Sex, rape culture, teenagers, courtroom drama, chorus, christianity
    When high school freshman Liana, a devout Christian, is raped in a drunken encounter with her sort-of boyfriend Michael, she is immediately confronted with guilt, abandonment and confusion, as well as the seemingly relentless implication that she has done something to deserve her assault.

    #Blessed weaves together religious text, contemporary dialogue, and courtroom drama, resulting in a...
    When high school freshman Liana, a devout Christian, is raped in a drunken encounter with her sort-of boyfriend Michael, she is immediately confronted with guilt, abandonment and confusion, as well as the seemingly relentless implication that she has done something to deserve her assault.

    #Blessed weaves together religious text, contemporary dialogue, and courtroom drama, resulting in a carefully rendered exploration of gender, love, and modern teenager-hood.
  • WE GO TOGETHER by Zoe Kamil
    Cast: 
    3
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    Genre: dark comedy, young audiences
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    Keyword: LGBTQ, teenagers + 1 more
    Genre: dark comedy, young audiences
    Keyword: LGBTQ, teenagers, high school
    Two Oreo-loving teenage girls cling desperately to their dysfunctional friendship even as its very foundation crumbles beneath them. Forced to face truths that are unwilling to stay buried any longer, Cara and Sasha must decide if whatever affection exists between them is worth maintaining as they stumble reluctantly toward adulthood.
  • NINE HOURS by Zoe Kamil
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    2
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    Genre: dark comedy, drama + 2 more
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    Keyword: genderqueer, judaism + 4 more
    Genre: dark comedy, drama, fantasy, science fiction
    Keyword: genderqueer, judaism, Jewish, apocalypse, religion, Transgender
    This play follows the last two people on earth — gender non-binary Faye and the Orthodox Jew Michal — as they set out on a journey of desperation, faith, acceptance, and strength.

    Previously produced through the Playwrights Project in San Diego, and The Blank Theatre's Young Playwrights Festival in Los Angeles.