Zoe Coombs-Marr

Zoë Coombs Marr is a performer writer artist and comedian She grew up in Grafton where she and her best friend staged a musical instead of going to schoolies week Zoë has performed stand up comedy extensively in Australia London and New York Her solo show Trigger Warning won the 2016 Melbourne Comedy Festival Award for Most Outstanding Show as well as the Golden Gibbo and two Green Room Awards It was also nominated for Best Show at the 2016 Edinburgh Fringe Festival and the 2017 Victorian Premiers Literary Award for Drama In 2008 Zoë completed a double degree in Performance Studies at UNSW and Fine Arts at COFA where she was awarded the Dinosaur Designs Prize and the Art and Australia Award Her video works and sculptures have been exhibited at a number of galleries including First Draft Kudos and Kings ARI and in 2006 she won the National Poetry Slam Championships under dubious circumstances In 2012 her solo theatrecomedy work And That Was The Summer That Changed My Life was awarded the Philip Parsons Young Playwright Award and was nominated for Best Newcomer at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival Other works include Gone Off or Ive Been Everywhere Man Old Fitzroy Theatre MCF 2012 SMAC award Best On Stage 2012 and Dave MCF 2013 Edinburgh Fringe Soho Theatre London Zoës fivewoman ensemble play Is This Thing On was presented at Belvoir Theatre in 2014 Zoë is also one third of the contemporary performance company post Most recently posts work Oedipus Schmoedipus was presented at Belvoir for Sydney Festival Arts House Melbourne and won a Green Room award for best experimental text posts other works include Whos The Best Sydney Theatre Company Melbourne Arts House Brisbane Powerhouse Darwin Festival and Noorderzon Festival NL 20112013 Everything I Know About The Global Financial Crisis In One Hour Belvoir Theatre 2010 Shamelessly Glitzy Work Performance Space Sydney Melbourne Arts House Brisbane Powerhouse and their newest work Ich Nibber Dibber played at Melbournes Malthouse Theatre and the Sydney Opera House in 2018 Zoë filmed Trigger Warning as part of the Next Gen series was a regular panel member on Dirty Laundry Live and has also been seen on Cram Ten ABCS The Chasers Media Circus How Not To Behave Backseat Drivers and Live at Bella Union SBS In 2017 Zoës theatrical collaboration with Ursula Martinez and Adrienne Truscott Wild Bore premiered at the Malthouse Theatre and went on to be performed at the Soho Theatre Edinburgh Fringe and at the Skirball Centre at NYU Since 2013 Zoë most frequently appeared in comedy circles including in her awardwinning show Trigger Warning as Dave a retrograde male comedian with a neck beard But in 2018 she appeared as herself sans Daves neck beard with her hit festival offering Bossy Bottom The show saw Zoe nominated for Best Comedy Performer at the Helpmann Awards and won her a prestigious Herald Angel Award in Edinburgh Bossy Bottom has been filmed for international release on Amazon Prime Video in 2020