Zara Jayne Arnold
Zara’s theatre credits include Sensory Immersion at The Arcola Theatre, Up The River Down The Road at Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch and In Touch at the National Theatre. In 2019 she performed as Martha in Martha, Josie and the Chinese Elvis at The Stephen Joseph Theatre and New Vic Theatre.
She is co-founder and artistic director of In Sight Theatre and with them has hosted creative writing workshops using video, audio, imagery and written word.
She joined the BareFace Collective in 2018; their debut show Fix Us was shortlisted for the Pleasance Theatre Charlie Hartill Award. They have performed Fix Us at the Lyric Hammersmith, Rosemary Branch Theatre, Soho Theatre, The Vaults, and at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2019.
Her TV credits include Holby City on the BBC and Damned on Channel 4. She has just launched a new podcast in collaboration with Sense called The Zara Show, available to listen to at The Zara Show: A podcast on Anchor
Zara graduated from Access All Areas’ 2015 Performance Making Diploma at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. She is an Associate Artist of Access All Areas.
ProfileAgent
- Sam How, Simon & How
- 020 3405 7424
- sam@simon-how.com
- Personal Details
- Height: 5'4"
- Eyes: Blue (wears glasses)
- Hair: Brown, short
- Eyes: Blue (wears glasses)
- Training
- 2015, Performance Making Diploma, Royal Central School of Speech and Drama
- 2012, London Academy of Media, Film and TV, Presenting and Presenting Reel
- 2011, Brian Timoney Actor’s Boat Camp, Method Acting
- 2007-2008, Plymouth University, Theatre in Education and the Community
- 2003-2005, Barking College, Performing Arts
- 2012, London Academy of Media, Film and TV, Presenting and Presenting Reel
- Theatre
- 2016, Narrator, Barbar The Elephant, The Acoustic Music Hall- Edinburgh Fringe, Dir: Roma Brown
- 2016, Performance Poet, Who Am I?, Oxo Towers, Dialogue Beyond Sight
- 2015, Fangirl, Live!art, [S P A C E] –Deptford, Dir: Owen Parry
- 2015, Zary, Zary and Gara’s Open Night Mike, Dir: Owen Parry
- 2015, Ensemble, Superhero, School Tour- London (Various), Dir: Stephan Pierre Mitchell
- 2015, As Self, Fandom, Toynberry Studios, LADA, Dir: Owen Parry
- 2014, Ensemble, Sensory Immersion, Arcola Theatre, Dir: Stephanie Singer
- 2012, Prometheus’ Right Arm (Puppeteer), Prometheus Awakes, Greenwich Maritime Museum - Outdoor Performance, Dir: Amit Sharma and Pera Tantina
- 2010, Kate/Ensemble, Down the River and Up the Road, Queen’s Theatre, Hornchurch, Dir: Patrick O’Sullivan
- 2016, Performance Poet, Who Am I?, Oxo Towers, Dialogue Beyond Sight
- Television
- 2016, Ensemble, My Riot, Dir: Nathan Thymes
- 2016, Messy Eater, World On A Plate, Dir: Roma Brown
- 2016, As Self, End The Awkward (online), Scope Advert Dir: Sandra Mattocks
- 2016, Kate Cambel, Damned (season 1, episode 2), WhatLarks!, Jo Buckingham Casting, Channel 4. Writer: Jo Brand
- 2016, Celia Branson, Holby City (season 18 episode 41), BBC1
- 2009, As Self, Yeardot
- 2016, Messy Eater, World On A Plate, Dir: Roma Brown
- Skills
- British Sign Language
- Workshop Leader
- Specific Dance
- Speech Making
- Creative Writing
- Stand Up Comedy
- Accents: Essex, London
- Script Supervisor
- Workshop Leader