Biography

Zoey Martinson is a comedy & genre writer and director. In theater she's written & directed Off-Broadway and internationally. Her feature film debut The Fisherman (an official selection of the 81st Venice Biennale Film Festival) filmed Ghana the film highlights her quirky unique voice in comedy and genre storytelling. For television, she wrote and directed Incomplete on Hulu's/ Disney+ Bite Size Halloween that was nominated for an NAACP Image Award 2023. The Wave for MTV/ Paramount+, Directed Episode 1-6 of A24's Ziwe on Showtime S2, Writer on season 2 of Betty on HBO Max. One of the 10 Female directing finalists featured on Issa Rea's Project Greenlight, on Max. Her short film Cupids, premiered at Tribeca Film Festival, then ran on BET & CBS and nominated for an NAACP Image Award 2022 as part of 8:46Films. Directed "Uthandiwe" for South Africa's DSTV MzansiMagic, Director for ABC/ Disney Discovers Talent. Her award winning short film 'La Oposición' played at Casa Mexico Program SXSW. Warner Brothers Discovery Director Class 2023/24.

She was the Artistic Fellow for Lincoln Center Institute, a recipient of the Rauschenberg Artist as Activist Fellowship, DGF Fellow and Virginia B. Toulmin Women Playwright Commission Award. Her work has won Diversity at Cannes, Pan African Film Festival, been nominated for Amnesty International Freedom of Expression Award, African Movie Academy Award and published in five anthologies. She was named one of the 18 Women Making Black History by popsugar.com and listed as an artist to watch by American Theater Magazine.

Before getting her Master Degree she worked as a humanitarian aid worker on refugee camps in West Africa. She is the co founder and Executive Producer of Smoke & Mirrors Collaborative.
- IMDb mini biography by: Ajax