Zahra Newman

A graduate of VCA, Zahra Newman has built an extensive list of theatre, television and film credits.

In 2016 she was awarded an AACTA for Best New Talent, and received a 2017 Sydney Theatre Award for her performance as ‘Nabulungi’ in The Book of Mormon. Other industry recognitions include a Green Room Award, CGA Award and multiple Helpmann nominations. Theatre credits include Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Love and Information for Sydney Theatre Company, Random, The Blind Giant is Dancing, Ivanov, The Government Inspector, Private Lives for Belvoir, Miss Julie, The Effect, The Mountain Top, The Cherry Orchard, Menagerie, Clybourne Park, The Drowsy Chaperone and Richard III for Melbourne Theatre Company, Well Behaved Women for Hayes Theatre Company and the critically acclaimed Wake in Fright for Malthouse/Sydney Opera House, which she also co-created.

Zahra’s film credits include Long Story Short, Truth and I Met A Girl. Her television credits include Diary of an Uber Driver, Sisters, Foxtel’s Wentworth, Neighbours, Rosehaven, Childhood’s End and Rush. Zahra will next be seen in the upcoming Paramount Plus series Spreadsheet, with Katherine Parkinson.