Zoë Bullock

 Critical responses to Zoë’s work include

For GRACIE & THE START OF THE END OF THE WORLD (AGAIN)
Produced by Louise Oliver & Zoë Bullock in association with Assembly Festivals

★★★★★ ~ Starburst Magazine
“Fabulous, quirky and unique. Filled with powerful emotional beats… a cupid’s arrow straight to the heart of pop culture.”
★★★★★ ~ The Fringe Minge
“Incredible storytelling… her ability to blend humor with hard-hitting topics is impressive, making complex issues accessible and entertaining”
★★★★.5 ~ Fringesider
“A masterclass in storytelling, we were enthralled in this world for the entire hour”
★★★★ ~ The Scotsman
“Zany, easy joy, delightful viewing”
★★★★ ~ Broadway Baby
“Completely whacky yet surprisingly provocative… hands down the best piece of environmentalist theatre I have seen”
★★★★ ~ Pepper & Salt
“Truly terrific”
★★★★ ~ EdFringe Review
“Authentic, funny and emotional”

+Winner+ ~ Assembly ART Award
+Winner+ ~ Scottish Theatre Bright Spark Award
+Nominee+ ~ The Popcorn Writing Award by The Popcorn Group/BBC Writers

“An original, deliciously surreal hour that comes with a sprightly turn of phrase, an unlikely trip to NYC’s Comic Con, and the unexpected demise of Timothée Chalamet. It is fizzily inventive and lots of fun. Winner of this year’s ART Award, Bullock is a writer and performer of originality and genuine vim as she takes tried and tested tropes and gives them a fishy overlay and a genuine sting in the tail. For all the considerable hijinks and double entendres, the unexpected pleasure here is that Bullock anchors this in real emotion in a story of environmental catastrophe and the devastating loneliness of survival.” ~ Lyn Gardner for The Stage

For NIGHT, IDIOT
Produced by A Play, A Pie & A Pint in association with the Traverse Theatre and the Lemon Tree Theatre

★★★★ ~ The Scotsman
”Bullock’s ingenious script… handled deftly and with feeling”
★★★★ ~ The Stage
”Conceptuously adventurous comedic work. An intelligent, absorbing tale of a missing man by promising playwright Zoë Bullock… There are a lot of laughs, but Bullock also deftly dives into the deeper, darker waters of class, relationships, ghosting, depression and modern masculinity.”

For SHŌ AND THE DEMONS OF THE DEEP
Produced by Independent Arts Projects in association with the National Theatre of Scotland

★★★★ ~ The Quintessential Review
“A hugely likeable, and ambitious production”
★★★★ ~ The Reviews Hub
“An intimately clever script”
★★★★ ~ Across the Arts
“Much to enjoy”
★★★★ ~ Corr Blimey
“A show which seeks to demonstrate the power of dreams, even broken, and encourages younger audiences not to hide and bury nightmares, but to open up and communicate with one another in this delightfully creative and warming show that threads together so much with canny skill and a dreamy glow.”

For OTHER WORK

Grand Prize Winner of The Script Lab’s Free Screenplay Contest (for THE AIR WE BREATHE)
Second Place Winner of The Alpine Fellowship Symposium (for OCTOPUS)
Second Place Winner of Women X Film Festival Screenplay Contest (for APPLICANT)
Top 5 Winner of Shore Scripts Development Fund (for MIASMA)
Finalist of Killer Shorts Screenplay Contest (for WITCH HUNT)
Nominated for Framework’s Digital Theatre Award (for PUSS N BOOTS: A SOLAR PUNK PANTOMIME)

★★★★ ~ The Wee Review (for TILL HUMAN VOICES WAKE US)
”A bold and thoroughly unpredictable piece of work. Bullock’s script drip feeds information beautifully… This is satisfying work, permitting an audience member to invest themselves fully in the narrative, such that when it reaches its climax, it feels entirely credible and justified. In lesser hands such a premise might feel absurd, yet the provocations posed here feel relevant, such is the skill with which the whole work is executed.”