Zoë Svendsen
Co-Creator/Director
Zoë Svendsen is a UK-based theatre maker. With METIS, Svendsen creates participatory
performances/installations exploring ecological crisis and capitalism. Her projects include Wild
Dress (Hawkwood Centre for Future Thinking), Re-Edocate Me! (Berlin), Love Letters to a Liveable
Future (Cambridge Junction) Factory of the Future (Oslo Architecture Triennale); WE KNOW NOT
WHAT WE MAY BE (Artsadmin Commission, Barbican), World Factory, (Young Vic/UK tour). As
dramaturg Zoë has reimagined Shakespeare for the contemporary stage with The Globe, the
National Theatre, the Young Vic & the RSC, also working with composer and sarod player Soumik
Datta to create hybrid concert/theatre performances Mone Rekho and Borderlands (Purcell
Rooms/Kings Place/international tour). Author of Bloomsbury’s Theatre & Dramaturgy; Svendsen
lectures on Dramaturgy at the University of Cambridge; and is Associate Artist with Cambridge
Junction & HighTide (and formerly Donmar Warehouse) with whom she has been developing the
eco-creative practice of ‘climate dramaturgy’.