Zed Hope Simon
zedhopesimon@gmail.com
Height: 5' 1" | Eyes: Brown | Voice: Soprano
Selected Theatre
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Future Proof: The UVX
Cirque Du Nuit Immersive Ensemble
McKittrick SuperCinema
Seven Minutes In Eternity
Othello
New York Renaissance Faire
Journey to Astron
A Chorus Line
Annie Get Your Gun
Cobweb/Faerie Court
Cipher Rage (Lead)
Performer
Performer
Mina/Red Egret (Lead)
Desdemona
Mary Read/Fight Corps
Ayranna (Lead)
Maggie
Ensemble
Little Flame Theatre
LUX Productions
You Are So Lucky Events
Punchdrunk Productions
Shapiro Theatre
The Secret Theatre
NYRF at Tuxedo, NY
MTC One Act Festival
The Drama Group
Illinois Theatre Center
Film/Commercial
Carl (Independent Short Film)
Harry Potter: The Exhibition (Japan)
Featured Extra
Gryffindor Employee
Casey Denaro
Warner Brothers Japan
Training
BFA with honors in drama from NYU Tisch School of the Arts (Playwrights Horizons Theatre School)
Acting - Elizabeth Hess, Theresa McCarthy, Michael Potts
Voice - Marika Becz, Mark Enright, Doug Paulson, Francine Zerfas
Stage Combat - SAFD trained in: unarmed, rapier & dagger, broadsword, single sword, quarterstaff, knife, sword & shield, smallsword (J. David Brimmer, Dan O'Driscoll, J. Allen Suddeth, Mitchell McCoy instructors); NY Ren Faire fight corps 2013-2015; NY summer sling intensive choreographer track 2016; NY summer sling intern 2017-2019, 2022
Dance - ballet, modern, lyrical, jazz, hip-hop, tap,
Other Experience - significant technical experience as stage manager, fight director and lighting designer (ETC express programming, cabling, hanging)
Special Skills
NY drivers license; fight direction; improv (including in Elizabethan English); Spanish (with Spanish accent), quick language study; basic guitar, flute, & piano; accents: English (cockney & RP), southern, Brooklyn, eastern European; flying trapeze