Awards, Recognition, & Workshops
Playwriting: Playwright for Theatre L’Acadie & Pocket VR’s 2025 New Play Inc. Ubator (NOLA) • Member of The Factory Theatre’s 2025 The Workshop Playwriting Cohort (Rot) • 2020 City Theatre Pittsburgh Young Playwright’s Competition Honorable Mention (Grand Visions)
Acting: 2025 RhinoFest Performer (The Interim)
Singing: 2026 Feature at Fritzel’s European Jazz Pub on Bourbon Street in New Orleans • 2025 Chicago Cabaret Professional’s Best New Chicago Cabaret Vocalist • 2025 Chicago Cabaret Week Opening Act at The Gateway Lounge • 2nd Place Winner of Davenport Piano Bar’s 2024 $1000 Opera Sing Off • 2024 Emerging Artists Competition Finalist • 2019 Winchester Thurston Choral Award Recipient
Theatre Leadership: 2024 Donald M. Ephraim Award & Scholarship Recipient • 2023 Sarah Siddons Scholarship Award Co-Recipient • 2020 Zelda Wilmurt Drama Prize Recipient • 2018 Cribs for Kids Junior Woman of Achievement Award Recipient
Reviews & Testemonials
Prick (Understudy/Assistant Director) - The Den Theatre (November 2025)
Proboscis Theatre Ensemble
“An unexpected bonus this evening was seeing Zoé Soteres do an amazing job stepping in for another cast member. Zoé was 100% prepared, rocked the role, and I got to hear her clarion soprano in several of the musical moments” - Cheryl Coons
Rot (Playwright) - The Workshop at The Factory Theatre (August-October 2025)
The Factory Theatre
“Soteres sustains an unrelenting tension in Rot full of rage and spite and hope for a better tomorrow. This capitalist nightmare thriller full of power dynamics and heavy silences will have you unable to look away from the system we all created.” - Zack Peercy
The Interim: A One-Woman Show (Molly, Playwright) - The Labyrinth Club (April 2025)
Sub Rosa Theatre Collective
“[Soteres’ performance was] both patient and impulsive” - Hudson James Therriault, Medium (full review here)
“Soteres’ writing is barebones and realistic. The slow burn is delightful” - Hudson James Therriault, Medium (full review here)
“[The] build of [The Interim] over time and — for my reference world — Grotowski-like, catastrophe bodily climax, lifted me away from the loud world run by discourse and text.” - Stefan Brün
In Pursuit Of: A Reading (Playwright) - Emerald City Cafe (October 2024)
Sub Rosa Theatre Collective
“An impressive and remarkably viable new play. Soteres’ ability to research and revise her work is uncommon. She manages to write complex ideas in a way that is speakable for the actor and compelling to the audience. The play honors its Russian roots while managing to be horrifyingly American. I long to see this in full production.” - George Keating
“In Pursuit Of was one of the most daring, provocative, yet laugh-out-loud funny pieces I have ever had the pleasure of working on. Not only is [Soteres] incredible talented and profound with her writing, but the entire theatre company producing this work are passionate visionaries who are hungry to produce work that really sits with audiences. I personally would love to see In Pursuit Of as a fully realized production as I feel it challenges its audience in a way that’s effective and immediate.” - Olemich Tugas
“In a moment dominated by the likes of Andrew Tate and Elon Musk, In Pursuit Of offers an honest, empathetic, and compelling insight into the minds of young men searching for purpose and meaning in their lives. It does not pull punches in portraying the destructive nihilism that permeates modern masculinity, but also refuses to dehumanize and deny agency to the protagonist.” - Brick Zurek
An Enemy of the People (Director, Adaptor) - The Den Theatre (May 2024)
Duality Theatre Company
“[Director] Zoé Soteres did an exceptional job of orchestrating this talented yet seemingly unknown cast. [Her] spirited and witty approach was exuberant and entertaining throughout the two-hour production.” - Rick McCain, Let’s Play Theatrical Reviews (full review here)
The Last Five Years (Cathy/Co-Director) - May 2021
City Theatre Pittsburgh
“A balm for local musical fans, a re-introduction to live theater in Pittsburgh and a celebration of what artists of all ages can accomplish with a little vision and elbow grease” - Joshua Axelrod, Pittsburgh Post Gazette (read full review here)