Zoe Jovanovich

Zoe Jovanovich

Zoe Jovanovich (she/her/hers) is an emerging playwright and actress hailing from the Pacific Northwest. Her play "Megan and the Bear Go Camping (To Solve Their Problems)" was the co-recipient of the Kennedy Center's National Undergraduate Playwriting Award, which included a week in residence at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center. Zoe has been in residence and/or developed work at Echo Theater...
Zoe Jovanovich (she/her/hers) is an emerging playwright and actress hailing from the Pacific Northwest. Her play "Megan and the Bear Go Camping (To Solve Their Problems)" was the co-recipient of the Kennedy Center's National Undergraduate Playwriting Award, which included a week in residence at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center. Zoe has been in residence and/or developed work at Echo Theater Company and The Kennedy Center. She served as the Literary Intern for The Playwrights Foundation's 2020 Bay Area Playwrights' Festival.

When not writing plays, Zoe has been a freelance scriptwriter for mobile games, and a media critic under her pen name; through which she has written over 100 pieces. Day-to-day, she works as a certified professional tennis instructor.

Zoe received her BA in English and Theatre from Western Washington University, with concentrations in acting and writing. She is an Associate Member of the Dramatists Guild.

Plays

  • Megan and the Bear Go Camping (To Solve Their Problems) by Zoe Jovanovich
    Recommendations: 14
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    Cast: 
    6–8
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    Genre: dark comedy, drama + 1 more
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    Keyword: Mental Health, Depression + 5 more
    Genre: dark comedy, drama, experimental
    Keyword: Mental Health, Depression, attempted suicide, Alaska, Camping, flashbacks, discussions of suicide
    Desperate times call for desperate measures, and Megan has set herself an ultimatum: camp alone for seven days on the rural Alaskan tundra to decide whether or not she wants to kill herself. Unfortunately, her attempts to be alone are consistently foiled by her brother, her own memories, and a grizzly bear named Betty, whom Megan has never met before in her life. A dark comedy about depression, the joys of camping, and bears.
  • Daughter of God by Zoe Jovanovich
    Recommendations: 8
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    Cast: 
    7
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    Genre: comedy, faith-based + 2 more
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    Keyword: christianity, Bible + 1 more
    Genre: comedy, faith-based, parody/spoof, political
    Keyword: christianity, Bible, queer angels
    [WORK IN PROGRESS] After the archangel Gabriel rejects her proposal to go to Earth for the 100th time, Jacqueline, Jesus’ perpetually invisible younger sister, decides to take her fight closer to home. When she sets out to earn Heaven the right to vote, all hell breaks loose. A whimsical take on Christianity that asks what happens when Paradise isn’t perfect.
  • Admit One by Zoe Jovanovich
    Recommendations: 3
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    Cast: 
    4–10
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    Genre: drama, experimental
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    Keyword: breaking the fourth wall, audience engagement + 2 more
    Genre: drama, experimental
    Keyword: breaking the fourth wall, audience engagement, purgatory, trains
    A woman and man each try to win the audience over to their side, before the curtain falls and it is too late.
  • LAPS by Zoe Jovanovich
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    2
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    Genre: comedy
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    Keyword: power dynamics, gender neutral
    Genre: comedy
    Keyword: power dynamics, gender neutral
    Jenny is the star student and swimmer of Big Valley High School. Jenny's mother happens to be sleeping with the principal.
  • Spare Change - A Monologue by Zoe Jovanovich
    Recommendations: 3
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    Cast: 
    1
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    Genre: drama
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    Keyword: sexual identity, sexual confusion + 2 more
    Genre: drama
    Keyword: sexual identity, sexual confusion, LGBTQ, self-reflection
    Lucy has a jar of coins. Each one represents a relationship.
  • My Sweet Spectre by Zoe Jovanovich
    Cast: 
    5
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    Genre: comedy, drama + 1 more
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    Keyword: coping with grief, ghosts + 1 more
    Genre: comedy, drama, young audiences
    Keyword: coping with grief, ghosts, platonic relationship
    While trying to navigate a new town, 16 year-old Danny Reynolds meets Emma, a girl who once lived in his house. The only problem is that Emma is dead, and can't remember how she died; not to mention the fact that Danny's mother refuses to believe in the supernatural. As their friendship grows, the two begin to discover the many different ways one copes with the loss of a loved one.