ZOE FISHPOOL

Zoe Fishpool is an Australian actor working across film and theatre, drawn to character-driven stories and emotionally grounded performance.

Although she trained extensively in dance from a young age, Zoe returned to acting in 2020 and committed fully to developing her screen craft. She began training independently before moving into formal screen acting classes, using the time to explore performance, character, and storytelling in a deeper way. Acting quickly became both a creative outlet and a grounding force, helping shape her understanding of people, empathy, and human behaviour.

Her screen credits include Chasing Lemons (2023) and its sequel Love and Lemon Trees (2024), where she plays Amy Mitchell — a role written specifically for her and reprised following strong audience response. Amy, sharp and emotionally guarded, proved to be a formative role in Zoe’s development as an actor. On stage, she appeared as Maisie in the UK theatre production Live in Five (2022), a performance described by Bravo Gold Coast as “the heart and soul of the production.”

Alongside acting, Zoe creates her own screen work as a way to stay creatively active and continue growing between roles. Her projects include the sci-fi drama Reservation (2024), which she wrote, produced, and starred in, as well as a number of collaborative short films.

She is currently developing new screen projects and preparing to return to acting following her wedding and the birth of her first child, with a continued focus on intimate, human-centred storytelling.

Zoe Fishpool is a dance teacher with over 15 years of experience, specialising in early dance development and tap.

She began assisting in classes in 2011 after progressing rapidly through her tap examinations, where she consistently achieved Honours and Honours with Distinction across multiple levels. Tap has been her strongest and most loved style since she began dancing in 2002, and remains the foundation of her teaching practice.

Over the years, Zoe has taught a wide range of styles including tap, jazz, musical theatre, lyrical, contemporary, aerial, acrobatics, and competition routines. While she continues to perform professionally, she found her true home in the studio — particularly in working with younger dancers.

In the past six years, Zoe has developed a strong niche teaching dancers aged 6–9. She is passionate about early technique development, building confidence, and fostering a genuine love of dance in a way that feels achievable, encouraging, and fun. She is especially devoted to being many students’ first introduction to tap, guiding them through the challenges of rhythm, coordination, and foot articulation, and celebrating the joy that comes with mastering difficult skills.

Zoe’s teaching approach is centred around how children learn. She actively adapts her methods for auditory, visual, and kinaesthetic learners, and is always exploring new ways to explain and break down movement so every student can succeed. She believes tap is essential for all dancers, developing musicality, rhythm, weight transfer, lightness, and intricate footwork — often describing it as “playing the drums with your feet.”

Alongside teaching students, Zoe is passionate about mentoring younger teachers, sharing practical skills, strategies, and teaching methods she has developed over her career. For her, teaching is not about accolades or what she has done on stage, but about how she teaches, how students feel in her class, and how confident they become in their bodies.

Her favourite genres to teach are tap, musical theatre, and aerial lyra, particularly for young dancers, valuing aerial for its ability to build strength, coordination, and body awareness in a safe and engaging way.