Imaginative
Entertaining &
Insightful Theater
Get ready for our Upcoming BAR(D)!
Announcing our 2025 Summer Repertory Season!
Othello
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
July 4-27, 2025 | New Mexico Actors Lab
Please join us in congratulating BAR(d) Coordinator and resident intimacy coordinator ZOE BURKE on her official appointment as ISC Santa Fe’s ASSOCIATE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR!
Zoe first joined the ISC for our 2019 season, appearing in Measure for Measure as Julietta and 1 Henry 4 as Peto/Lady Mortimer/Vernon; she returned in 2022 as the intimacy coordinator of Pericles and The Winter’s Tale and served in that same role for 2024’s Romeo & Juliet and The Taming of the Shrew. In 2024, she began coordinating ISC’s BAR(d) program and appeared as Sebastian in BAR(d): Twelfth Night and Lady Macbeth in BAR(d): Macbeth; she facilitated BAR(d) readings of Love’s Labour’s Lost, A Midsummer Night’s Dream and The Merry Wives of Windsor.
Outside of the ISC, Zoe directed C*CK with Ad Astra Theatre Co., OR, at the Santa Fe Playhouse, and will direct Much Ado About Nothing for the New Mexico Shakespeare Festival in 2025. In her hometown of Wichita, KS, she directed productions of Antony & Cleopatra, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and A Year with Frog and Toad — in both locations, she has directed dozens of educational productions with K-12 students.
Her intimacy design has recently been seen in productions of Sunday in the Park with George, The Baby Monitor, and On Clover Road at the Santa Fe Playhouse and Oklahoma, Legally Blonde, Kinky Boots, Spring Awakening, and Cabaret with Tri-M Productions. She served as a teaching artist with SAG-AFTRA accredited intimacy design training program Intimacy Directors and Coordinators during its Consent Forward Artist program and developed/taught curriculum centered around inclusive and culturally sensitive practices for working with Indigenous actors. She regularly teaches workshops on intimacy work for schools and companies such as NMSA, the Upstart Crows of Santa Fe, Santa Fe Shakespeare Festival, Los Alamos Light Opera, and ACTTheatre Topeka.
Zoe holds a B.S. in Elementary Education with a 6-12 Speech/Theatre Endorsement and is currently pursuing her M.Ed in Theatre Pedagogy from SE Oklahoma State University.
Incite Shakespeare Company Santa Fe
(formerly International Shakespeare Center) is a non-profit theatre company located in Santa Fe, New Mexico. All our work stems from our commitment to building ensembles both within our company and in our community through imaginative, entertaining and insightful performances and events. We strive to develop productions that take Shakespeare’s plays off the pedestal and explore their resonance in our contemporary times. We examine power, play with gender, and experiment with process. We create productions that provoke complex thoughts and deep feelings. We aim to present Shakespeare’s work as we experience it: exciting, alive, edgy, full of beauty, imagination, change, contradiction, and complexity. We want our whole community, from actors to audiences, from designers to students, to feel energized by Shakespeare.
Join us as we embody Shakespeare’s text and present our vision of an ensemble-driven creative process. Come and incite Shakespeare with us!
“Theatre is a complicit medium. The Audience completes the circle.”
—Cate Blanchett
We are proud 2024-2025 and 2023-2024 recipients of a generous Collaborative Impact grant from The City of Santa Fe Arts and Culture Department
We share this grant with our partner organization, Upstart Crows of Santa Fe, as part of the Santa Fe Summer Shakespeare Festival
Collaborative Impact (CI) focuses the programmatic efforts of Santa Fe’s arts nonprofit organizations on the development/creation of new media and/or programs intended to promote both Santa Fe’s rich and diverse arts and culture arena. The goal is to encourage collaborative projects independent of the partnering organizations’ traditional programming and foster the sharing of ideas, staff, materials, and resources. Organizations are encouraged to create multi-disciplinary programmatic content that promotes storytelling and advances the artistic vibrancy and cultural assets of Santa Fe in unique ways through in-person and/or digital experiences. CI grants are intended to expand the promotion of Santa Fe to include Cultural Tourism, thus attracting a specific audience of visitors who more directly foster our creative economy.
Incite Shakespeare Company Santa Fe is dedicated to making Santa Fe a destination for world-class Shakespeare.