ABOUT ME
Zoë Aiko Sonnenberg (she/her) is a writer, dramaturg, and educator. Born in Chicago into a family of psychologists, she channels her secondhand analytic training into character and story. Despite a self-proclaimed allergy to genre, her writing frequently engages with themes of time, medicine, and new media. As a dramaturg, Zoë is particularly interested in supporting writers for stage and screen through the process of developing new work.
Zoë earned her B.A. in English with a minor in Theater and Performance Studies from Stanford University and her M.Litt. in Playwriting and Dramaturgy from the University of Glasgow. She is currently pursing her M.S.W. at San Jose State University, where she is studying narrative performance as a tool for social justice.
Zoë has worked with numerous major production companies and performing arts organizations in New York, Los Angeles, Boston, and the Bay Area. She works with writer/actor/director B.J. Novak, and is an ensemble member of Alternative Theater Ensemble. Zoë is a member emerita of the writers' group Lab Twenty6. Zoë is also the Communications Director for Stanford in Entertainment, an organization supporting the work of alumni artists in film, television, theater, music, visual arts, and new media. She is also a singer, and has toured with choral ensembles in New York, Los Angeles, the Bay Area, the American South, Hawai'i, South Africa, and Italy.