Zoe Ward is a Michigan-born, LA-based writer-director with a passion for expansive world-building and high-stakes storytelling. She received her MFA in Directing from UCLA and has worked in writers’ rooms with Terence Winter, Larry Trilling, Michael Fuller, and Robin Veith. She recently staffed on a one-hour drama for Apple with David Matthews. Her short films have screened at Austin Film Festival and Outfest, her feature thesis script won the UCLA Producers’ Showcase, and her debut short fiction was published in Iowa Review.
She also packs an arsenal of offbeat anecdotes and niche know-how. After dropping out of high school on the morning of 9/11, Zoe toured with a punk band; traveled to Cuba; ran a farm in Connecticut; got arrested at Occupy Wall Street; and hitchhiked across Mexico and New Zealand. Along the way, she’s worked in AIDS advocacy, book publishing, fashion, and as a dog walker in NYC. Her adventurous early years set the tone for a life grounded in compassion, curiosity, and devastating sarcasm. She has two children, two dogs, and one unflappable spouse.
