Zoe BH and Luke Currie-Richardson
Garabari - Sydney Festival 2026

Some people walk into a room and fill it. Zoë is one of those people, not because she demands attention, but because everything she does is whole-hearted, fully embodied, and genuinely meant.

Zoë is a performer, actor, choreographer, and educator whose work spans Australia's most significant stages, screens, and communities. She approaches every project the same way: find the purpose fast, build the layers deep, and deliver something that exceeds what anyone thought was possible. Ambition is an understatement. So is commitment.

Her performance credits reflect an artist who doesn't sit still. With Joel Bray Dance, Zoë performed in Monolith, earning a Green Room Award nomination for Outstanding Performer in a production that won the Green Room Award for Best Creation. She then performed the role of Balana in Garabari, taking the work on a sweeping 2026 national tour across Sydney Festival, Midsumma Festival, Merrigong Theatre, Canberra Theatre Centre, Darwin AANT, Katherine, and Orange. Limelight Magazine gave the work five stars and named Zoë personally. What the reviews couldn't fully capture was what happened off stage: yarns shared, movement workshops held, and deep relationship building with mob and communities at every stop. She also performed in BROLGA, touring to Canberra and Sydney, bringing First Nations storytelling to audiences through contemporary movement at every turn.

On screen, Zoë portrays Janelle Goolagong in the ABC series Goolagong, and leads as Jeremy Buttons across 20 credited episodes of the ABC Kids series Knee High Spies Season 1, awarded Children's Production of the Year at the Screen Producers Australia Awards. She also performed and modelled in RECLAMATION, a First Nations fashion design showcase celebrating cultural identity and sovereignty, a space that sits at the intersection of movement, story, and design, and feels very much like home. Her stage work includes performing in GUURANDA with Jacob Boehme (Adelaide Festival 2024), an immersion in contemporary dance making at the highest level that sharpened her dramaturgical eye and deepened her creative instincts. She was also honoured to be selected as Stephanie Lake's First Nations Intern, an experience that remains a cornerstone of her artistic formation.

Zoë's choreographic work is its own chapter. She co-choreographed and performed for the Evonne Goolagong Cawley Day at the Australian Open alongside Budjerah, a moment that brought together sport, culture, and the kind of shared joy Zoë lives to create. She choreographed and performed a contemporary duo for The Dreamtime @ The G, a nationally broadcast live event produced by Mushroom Group and the AFL. And she co-choreographed GUURANDA with Jacob Boehme, weaving puppetry, shadow puppetry, and group movement into a work that premiered at Adelaide Festival 2024.

Zoë teaches as a casual instructor at Chunky Move and mentors young artists with the Boonwurrung Ngargee Dancers, giving to those spaces the same thing she gives everywhere: full presence, genuine care, and the belief that art made in community is art that actually matters.

She is a sponge, a collaborator, a storyteller, and a force. She is endlessly curious about what art can do in the world when artists aren't afraid to go deep, take a real position, and share something true. She seeks impact. She builds trust. She comes from strength.

And she is just getting started.