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Zoe Lafferty

Director

Zoe is a director, writer, creative producer and activist, creating theatre and cultural experiences with people and communities fighting for social and political change. She has directed productions at leading theatres world-wide including the Young Vic, Schaubühne and New York Skirball and has toured to major theatres and festivals in over 20 countries and 40 British stages.

Currently she is writing and co-directing The Revolution’s Promise a VR and mass mobilsation project. And funded by DYCP writing The Fight For Life exploring movements that intersect between armed resistance, civil disobedience and culture and what we can learn from these in light of the climate crisis.

Zoe is an Associate Director of The Freedom Theatre in Jenin Refugee Camp, Palestine where she has worked for the last twelve years and recently set up Creative Destruction an initiative to explore the relationship between arts, activism and politics.