Zahra Newman

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

Malthouse Theatre: The Hate Race and actor/co-creator for Wake in Fright

Other Theatre:  Random, The Blind Giant is Dancing, Ivanov, The Government Inspector, Private Lives (Belvoir); Girl from the North Country (GWB); Well Behaved Women (Hayes Theatre Co.);  Miss Julie, The Effect, The Mountain Top, The Cherry Orchard, Menagerie, Clybourne Park, The Drowsy Chaperone, Richard III (Melbourne Theatre Company); Lady Day At Emerson’s Bar and Grill (STCSA/Belvoir/MTC); Fences, A Raisin in the Sun, Julius Caesar, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and Love and Information (Sydney Theatre Company).

Film: Addition, Truth, I Met a Girl, Long Story Short, Thirteen Lives and Our Haunt.

Television:  Erotic Stories, Pieces of Her, Spreadsheet, Diary of an Uber Driver, Wentworth, Neighbours, Rosehaven, Childhood’s End and Rush.

Awards include an AACTA for Best New Talent, a 2017 Sydney Theatre Award for ‘Nabulungi’ in The Book of Mormon, a Green Room Award, CGA Award and multiple Helpmann Award nominations.