actor-fight director-playwright
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Acting

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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