Bio

Zo (pronouns: they, them, theirs) is a San Francisco born, Lenapehoking/NYC based, Jewish Japanese American queer neurodivergent performer. They were a recurring guest star on American Horror Story Season 12: Delicate (FX, Hulu), have appeared on Only Murders in the Building (Hulu, Disney+), Dickinson (Apple TV), and have starred in several independent films, including selections for screenings at Newfest and Outfest. In theater, they've worked on productions at INTAR, Playwright’s Horizons, Pan Asian Rep at Theatre Row, Cherry Lane Theatre, Westchester Broadway Theatre, Access Theatre, Frigid Fest, The American Museum of Natural History, and TheaterWorksUSA, and in workshops at Roundabout Theatre, NYTW, Breaking the Binary, The Playwright’s Realm, New Dramatists, CSC/Oregon Shakes Play On! festival, Rattlestick Theater, Red Bull Theatre, WP Theatre, The Movement Theatre, The Acting Company, The Lark, Faultline Theater, Huntington Theater Company, Playbill.com, and The Actors Fund. Zo has narrated articles for The New Yorker and New York Magazine on Apple News, and has been featured in dramatic podcasts, including Play On!/OSF’s collaboration with Next Chapter Podcasts. Zo has sung at Birdland Theater, in Times Square, at Spectrum NYC, and at the Joventuts Musicals Festival in Barcelona. They have performed operatic roles with Opera on Tap, Dell’Arte Opera, Underworld Productions Opera, Garden State Opera, and Manhattan Opera Studio. 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 sword-fighting kitsune spirit. 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 Carol Yahr, Mary Burgess, and Peyton Hibbitt. Zo currently studies with Sarah K Brown, and has coached contemporary and musical theater singing styles with Lilli Wosk. Zo also plays guitar, piano, ukulele, and a little drum and violin. Zo is a Guild Certified Feldenkrais Practitioner. Zo completed the New York Feldenkrais Method Professional Training Program, directed by David Zemach-Bersin, concurrent with intensive Feldenkrais-based vocal and somatic studies with Maxine Davis. They are a proud member of SAG-AFTRA and Actors Equity.