"She has the kind of star quality that you notice the moment she walks on stage."
- Terry Teachout, Wall Street Journal
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CURRENT/ONGOING...
RECENT...
November 2020
Zoë participated in Shakespeare & Company's 2020 Reading Series, reading the character of Ginny Yang in Smart People, the thought-provoking play by Lydia R. Diamond.
December 2019
Zoë played the devious Fanny Dashwood and the sly Lucy Steele in Shakespeare & Company's holiday performance of Kate Hamill's adaptation of Sense and Sensibility.
September 2019
Zoë reprised the role of Julie, a bumbling funeral director in Savannah Hankinson's The Daerie Queene, at Guild Hall of Easthampton.
July-August 2019
Zoë played Hermia and Starveling in Vainglory Theatre's production of A Midsummer Night's Dream in upstate New York.
May-June 2019
Zoë made her Boston area debut with Actors' Shakespeare Project in Kate Hamill's Pride & Prejudice, as Jane and Miss De Bourgh.
April 2019
Zoë had the privilege of performing Pericles with the rig, a performance group that brings professional theatre to audiences with little or no access to the arts.
PRAISE FOR ZOË LAIZ...
Zoë stars in Communication is Key, a surrealist horror short film by A.D. Burnett, currently circuiting festivals throughout the country.
Zoë co-narrates Weeping Under This Same Moon by Jana Laiz, a moving and timely story about a Vietnamese refugee and the outcast American teenager who befriends her.
Zoë joins the cast of Measure for Measure at Shakespeare & Company this summer, playing September 1 -5.
"...crafted with an expansiveness that does not surrender character to caricature..."
- Jeffrey Borak, The Berkshire Eagle
"Everyone else in the cast is superb, with Ms. Laiz, whose part is small but flashy, making the biggest impression. She has the kind of star quality that you notice the moment she walks on stage."
- Terry Teachout, Wall Street Journal