Zoe Lister-Jones

Zoe Lister-Jones (born September 1, 1982)[1] is an American actress, producer, director and writer who co-starred in the CBS sitcom Life in Pieces. She is also known for her work on the television shows Delocated, Whitney, and New Girl.

Zoe Lister-Jones
Lister-Jones in 2017
Born	September 1, 1982 Brooklyn, New York City, U.S.
Nationality	American
Alma mater	New York University
Occupation	Actress, producer, director, writer
Years active	2004–present
Known for	Delocated Whitney Friends with Better Lives New Girl Life in Pieces
Spouse(s)	Daryl Wein ​ (m. 2013)​
Parent(s)	Ardele Lister Bill Jones

Early life and education

Lister-Jones was born in Brooklyn, New York City. Her mother is the Canadian-born and New York-based video artist Ardele Lister, and her father is the American photographer and media artist Bill Jones.[2] Her mother was born to a Jewish family, whereas her father converted to Judaism.[3][4] In 2000 she graduated from Edward R Murrow High School in Brooklyn.[5] She graduated with honors from the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University and studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in London.[6] Lister-Jones performed with a rock band.[7][8] Her mother was president of a local Conservative egalitarian synagogue that the family attended every Saturday, and she also kept a kosher home.[9]

Career

Her debut solo CD was entitled Skip the Kiss.[10] Kyle Forester, who composed the score for Breaking Upwards, arranged the music for Skip the Kiss. She is a member of The Ladybug Transistor.

Lister-Jones' New York City theater credits include Seminar, The Little Dog Laughed and The New Group's The Accomplices. Her screen credits include the political thriller State of Play, Salt, The Other Guys, The Marconi Bros., Day Zero, as well as quirky independent films such as Armless, Arranged, and Palladio. On television she has appeared in Law & Order, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Law & Order: SVU, Law & Order: Trial by Jury, on HBO's Bored to Death, as Kim on Adult Swim's Delocated, as Lily in the cast of the NBC sitcom Whitney, as Kate in Friends with Better Lives, as Councilwoman Fawn Moscato in New Girl, as Jen in Life in Pieces and as Carolyn Hart in the HBO film Confirmation.

In 2004, Lister-Jones wrote and performed the one-woman, ten-character show Co-dependence is a Four Letter Word at New York City's Performance Space 122 (P.S.122).[11]

In 2009, Lister-Jones co-starred, co-produced (with Daryl Wein), and co-wrote (with Peter Duchan and Daryl Wein) the independent feature Breaking Upwards,[12] which explores a young New York couple who, battling codependency, strategize their own break up.[13] The film was shot in New York on a budget of $15,000, and was featured in a New York Times article as an example of sweat equity in the independent-film industry.[14] Lister-Jones also wrote the lyrics and performed many of the tracks of the original motion picture sound track. Breaking Upwards premiered at the SXSW Film Festival in March, 2009.[15]

Lister-Jones starred with Sam Rosen in Brady Kiernan's romantic drama Stuck Between Stations (2011) alongside Josh Hartnett and Michael Imperioli. Stuck Between Stations premiered as an official selection of the Viewpoints section at the SVA Theater at the 2011 Tribeca Film Festival in New York City, New York, U.S.A.[16]

Lister-Jones starred in the independent feature film Lola Versus (2012), her second project co-written with director Daryl Wein.[17][18] Distributed by Fox Searchlight Pictures, Lola Versus opened in theaters Summer 2012.[19] It stars Greta Gerwig, Zoe Lister-Jones, Bill Pullman, Hamish Linklater, Debra Winger, Joel Kinnaman and Ebon Moss-Bachrach. Lola Versus premiered at New York's Tribeca Film Festival in April 2012.[20]

Lister-Jones and Daryl Wein co-wrote Consumed (2015),[21] their third feature-length collaboration directed by Wein. The political thriller, which focuses on the world of genetically modified organisms, began filming in May 2014 in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois with Shatterglass Studios. It stars Lister-Jones, Kunal Nayyar, Taylor Kinney, Victor Garber, Danny Glover, Griffin Dunne, Anthony Edwards, and Beth Grant.[22] Consumed premiered at the Los Angeles Film Festival on June 15, 2015.[23]

In 2017, Lister-Jones made her directorial debut with her indie film Band Aid,[24] starring Lister-Jones, Adam Pally, Fred Armisen, Hannah Simone, Colin Hanks, Brooklyn Decker, Majandra Delfino, Jesse Williams, Susie Essman, Ravi Patel, Jamie Chung, Chris D’Elia, Retta, and Jerry O’Connell. The film features lyrics for original songs written by Lister-Jones and composed by Kyle Forester (Breaking Upwards). In 2019, she was hired by Columbia and Blumhouse to write and direct the sequel of the 1996 film The Craft.[25]

Personal life

In 2013, Zoe married her acting, writing and production partner Daryl Wein.[26]

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1986	Zoe's Car	Zoe	Video short
2004	Nausea II	Annie Ball
2005	Anna on the Neck	Alessandra	Short film
2006	New Boobs	Patricia Coleo	Short film
2007	Arranged	Rochel Meshenberg
2007	The Last 15	Stephanie Kirkland	Short film
2007	Day Zero	Jessica Hendricks
2007	Turn the River	Kat
2007	Five Difficult Situations	C	Short film
2008	The Marconi Bros.	Lauren
2008	Explicit Ills	Jen
2008	Goyband	Hani
2009	Breaking Upwards	Zoe
2009	State of Play	Jessy
2010	Armless	Jenny
2010	Shadows & Lies	Rebecca
2010	Salt	CIA Security Hub Tech
2010	The Other Guys	Therapist
2010	All Good Things	Press Conference Reporter
2011	Stuck Between Stations	Rebecca
2012	Lola Versus	Alice
2014	Let's Get Digital	Sophie	Short film
2015	Consumed	Sophie Kessler
2016	Confirmation	Carolyn Hart	Television film
2017	Band Aid	Anna	Also writer, director, and producer
2020	The Craft: Legacy		Writer and director

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2005	Law & Order: Trial by Jury	Trisha Ford	Episode: "Pattern of Conduct"
2005	Law & Order: Criminal Intent	Maya Sampson	Episode: "Diamond Dogs"
2006	Kidnapped	E.J.	Episode: "Sorry, Wrong Number"
2006	Law & Order	Hannah Welch	Episode: "Public Service Homicide"
2006	The Class	Jeanie Callucci	Episode: "The Class Goes to a Bar"
2008	Law & Order: Special Victims Unit	Faith	Episode: "Unorthodox"
2009	Washingtonienne	Chiara	Episode: "Pilot"
2009	State of Romance	Alice	Episode: "Pilot"
2009	Bored to Death	Michelle	Episode: "The Case of the Stolen Skateboard"
2009–2010	Delocated	Kim	Recurring role (15 episodes)
2010	The Good Wife	Charlotte Armitage	Episode: "Bad"
2011–2013	Whitney	Lily Dixon	Main role, 2 seasons
2014	Friends with Better Lives	Kate	Main role
2015	New Girl	Fawn Moscato	Recurring role (5 episodes)
2015–2019	Life in Pieces	Jen Short	Main role

Theater

Broadway

Year	Title	Role	Venue	Notes
2006	The Little Dog Laughed	Ellen	Cort Theatre
2012	Seminar	Kate	John Golden Theatre

Off Broadway

Year	Title	Role	Venue	Notes
2007	The Accomplices	Betty	The New Group
2008	The Marriage of Bette and Boo	Joan	Roundabout Theater Company

One-woman shows

Year	Title	Role	Venue	Notes
2004	Codependence Is a Four-Letter Word	Ten characters	P.S. 122

References

1. "Zoe Lister Jones | British Film Institute". British Film Institute. Retrieved February 19, 2019.
2. Baylen, Ashley (September 17, 2012). "Interview With 'Whitney' and 'Lola Versus' Actress Zoe Lister-Jones". ShalomLife.com. Retrieved October 20, 2012.
3. Williams Cole. "Of Skin and Snoods".
4. Pfefferman, Naomi (31 May 2017). "Zoe Lister-Jones puts 'Band Aid' on wounds of relationships — Jewish Journal". Retrieved 9 October 2018.
5. Edward R. Murrow High School
6. "Cast of Palladio: "Molly"". Retrieved 1 April 2016.
7. Guy Richards Smit#Maxi Geil!|Maxi Geil! & Playcolt
8. "Maxi Geil! & Playcolt - A Message To My Audience". Discogs. Retrieved 1 April 2016.
9. Fox, Michael (Jun 8, 2017). "Romantic comedy 'Band Aid' keeps writer-director-star's Jewishness intact". Retrieved May 27, 2020.
10. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on October 24, 2013. Retrieved April 27, 2013.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
11. "Zoe Lister-Jones: Codependence is a Four-Letter Word". NEWSgrist.
12. "Breaking Upwards".
13. "The Private Lives of Zoe Lister-Jones". Interview Magazine.
14. Rother, Larry (March 26, 2010). "Sweat Equity, the Movie". The New York Times.
15. "SXSW Review: Breaking Upwards". Film School Rejects.
16. "Tribeca Film Festival unveils competition lineup". Entertainment Weekly. Jeff Labrecque. March 7, 2011. Retrieved 2011-03-08.
17. DAVID AMSDEN (13 June 2012). "Daryl Wein and Zoe Lister-Jones - Partners in Life and in Movies - NYTimes.com".
18. Syme, Rachel (18 June 2012). "Double Feature". TIME.com.
19. When and where to see LOLA VERSUS this summer Archived June 10, 2012, at the Wayback Machine
20. John DeFore (April 26, 2012). "Lola Versus: Tribeca Review". The Hollywood Reporter.
21. "CONSUMED, the Movie".
22. Borys Kit. "Zoe Lister-Jones to Star in Political Thriller 'Food' (Exclusive)". The Hollywood Reporter.
23. LA Film Festival: Consumed Archived March 5, 2016, at the Wayback Machine
24. Kroll, Justin (Jul 19, 2016). "Zoe Lister-Jones Makes her Directorial Debut with Indie 'Band Aid'". Retrieved May 27, 2020.
25. D'Alessandro, Anthony (26 March 2019). "Columbia Pictures & Blumhouse Officially Tap Zoe Lister-Jones To Direct & Write 'The Craft' Reboot". Deadline. Retrieved 26 March 2019.
26. "Grappling With GMOs: Daryl Wein & Zoe Lister-Jones On 'Consumed' | Rich Roll". Rich Roll. Retrieved 9 October 2018.

External links

• Zoe Lister-Jones at IMDb
• Zoe Lister-Jones at the Internet Broadway Database