Zoe Roberts
Photos: OPERATION MINCEMEAT Original Cast Takes Final Bows on Broadway (Feb 23, 2026)
Photos: Broadway Stars Come Together for the 27th Annual Broadway Barks (Jul 13, 2025)
Photos: 2025 Tony Awards- Stars Walk the Red Carpet (Jun 8, 2025)
BIO
Zoë Roberts an award-winning writer-performer, and co-writer and star of Operation Mincemeat, which won Best New Musical at the 2024 Olivier Awards, and for which she was also nominated for Best Supporting Actress in a Musical for originating the role of Johnny Bevan & Others.
Outside of Operation Mincemeat, Zoë is part of the award-winning dark-comedy theatre troupe Kill the Beast. She specialises in making hugely entertaining, genre-defying stories infused with complete and utter silliness.
Theatre includes: Operation Mincemeat (Fortune Theatre, Riverside Studios, Southwark Playhouse, New Diorama); Saint Jude (Swamp Motel); the Ivy Isklander series (Swamp Motel); Director’s Cut, Don’t Wake the Damp, He Had Hairy Hands and The Boy Who Kicked Pigs (Kill the Beast).
Film & TV writing includes: Dogs in Space (Netflix)
Podcast & Radio writing & performing includes: Who Exploded Vivien Stone? (Fremantle/Storyglass), Behind the Screams (Little Earthquake) and Eglantine Whitechapel: Supernatural Detective (Kill the Beast)
Photos
Natasha Hodgson, Gerianne Pérez, Amanda Jill Robinson, Jeff Kready, Claire-Marie Hall, Zoë Roberts, Lexi Rabadi, Jessi Kirtley, Jak Malone, Brandon Contreras, David Cumming, Sam Hartley and Robert Ariza
From: Photos: Original OPERATION MINCEMEAT Cast Performs at the Laurie Beechman Theatre
STAGE CREDITS
Productions
Awards and Nominations
Zoë Roberts, Operation Mincemeat
Zoë Roberts, Operation Mincemeat
Zoë Roberts, Operation Mincemeat
Zoë Roberts, Operation Mincemeat
Zoe Roberts, Operation Mincemeat: A New Musical
Zoe Roberts, Operation Mincemeat: A New Musical
News
by Stephi Wild - Feb 23, 2026
After playing more than 1,000 performances in Operation Mincemeat since its inception, the Tony and Olivier Award-winning musical celebrated the final performance of its original cast members. Check out photos here!
by Nicole Rosky - Jul 13, 2025
Jutst yesterday, the best of Broadway came together in Shubert Alley for the 27th annual Broadway Barks. Hosted by co-founder Bernadette Peters and Beth Leavel, the special event featured a ‘meet and greet' of all the adoptable pets, who made their Broadway debut on stage alongside some of Broadway's favorite stars. Check out photos here!
by Bruce Glikas - Jun 8, 2025
Check out photos of all of the the red carpet looks at Radio City Music Hall for the 78th Annual Tony Awards and check back as we add more throughout the night.
by BWW Awards - Jun 5, 2025
The Theater Fans' Choice Awards honor and celebrate the best of New York Theater - as decided by the most important critics, the audience at large - allowing YOU to have your say during the most exciting time of the year for the theater community.
by Genevieve Rafter Keddy - Jun 2, 2025
Debra Messing and Tituss Burgess hosted the 69th Annual Drama Desk Awards at 7:30pm ET at NYU Skirball. See photos from the red carpet here! Learn more about the awards here!
by BWW Awards - Jun 2, 2025
This is the final chance to vote for BroadwayWorld's 22nd Annual Theater Fans' Choice Awards. The Theater Fans' Choice Awards honor and celebrate the best of New York Theater. There's just one week left to vote!
by Genevieve Rafter Keddy - May 28, 2025
New Dramatists honored Tina Landau, an award-winning playwright, lyricist, and director (Redwood, Floyd Collins, SpongeBob SquarePants), and Tony Award winner Idina Menzel (Redwood, Wicked, Rent) at its recent spring gala! Check out photos from the event!
by BWW Awards - May 27, 2025
The latest standings have been released for BroadwayWorld's 22nd Annual Theater Fans' Choice Awards. The Theater Fans' Choice Awards honor and celebrate the best of New York Theater. There's just one week left to vote!
by Bruce Glikas - May 22, 2025
Manhattan Theatre Club just hosted its 2025 Spring Gala, which was held on Monday, May 19 at Cipriani 42nd Street. The evening was hosted by three-time Tony Award recipient Bernadette Peters . Check out photos here!
by BWW Awards - May 19, 2025
Show your support for shows like Maybe Happy Ending, Operation Mincemeat, Death Becomes Her, BOOP! The Musical and more.
by BWW Awards - May 12, 2025
The first standings have been released for BroadwayWorld's 22nd Annual Theater Fans' Choice Awards. The Theater Fans' Choice Awards honor and celebrate the best of New York Theater - as decided by the most important critics, the audience at large - allowing YOU to have your say during the most exciting time of the year for the theater community.
by Bruce Glikas - May 9, 2025
The 2025 Tony nominees gathered at the Sofitel New York yesterday to meet the press for the first time and BroadwayWorld was there for the special day. Check out photos of the 2025 musical nominees here.
by Jennifer Broski - Apr 8, 2025
MCC Theater presented Miscast- one of the most anticipated and exciting theater events in New York each year, where the biggest stars of stage and screen take to the stage at Hammerstein Ballroom, to perform songs from roles in which they would not traditionally be cast. Check out photos from the red carpet here!
by A.A. Cristi - Apr 2, 2025
Monday night’s installment of Jamie deRoy & Friends at Birdland was yet another testament to why the esteemed producer and host remains an indispensable force in the cabaret world. See photos from the show!
by Stephi Wild - Apr 1, 2025
Zoe Roberts, currently starring in Operation Mincemeat on Broadway, took us backstage at the Golden Theatre to share some of her favorite backstage routines, moments, must-haves and more.
by Bruce Glikas - Mar 21, 2025
The 2024 Olivier Award-winning musical comedy Operation Mincemeat: A New Musical officially opened at the Golden Theatre. Check out photos from the opening night curtain call here!
by Stephi Wild - Feb 15, 2025
The acclaimed new musical Operation Mincemeat, which took the West End by storm in 2023, is coming to Broadway, starring the original London cast. Previews begin tonight, February 15, at the John Golden Theatre. Meet the cast here!
by Aliya Al-Hassan - Nov 3, 2023
In 1943, MI5 secretary Hester Leggatt played a vital role in an operation to fool the Nazis, by writing fake love letters to be found on a corpse. Hester's own story remained a mystery until Operation Mincemeat inspired fans, known as mincefluencers, to #FindHester. Erin Edwards wrote to MI5, asking for confirmation that Hester had worked in the wartime security services. Here she tells BroadwayWorld about her own research and eventually receiving written confirmation from MI5 about Hester.
by A.A. Cristi - Jan 6, 2022
To celebrate 25 years of The Stage 100, The Stage has today announced a new list celebrating 25 individuals or partnerships tipped to become the future stars of the UK theatre industry.
by Cindy Marcolina - Sep 18, 2021
Move over Hamilton and Six. There’s a new historical musical in town and it’s creating ripples. After a sold-out debuting run at the New Diorama back in pre-covid times and another one in 2020 at Southwark Playhouse, SplitLip’s Operation Mincemeat has just returned to Elephant and Castle once more before coming back again next year. It almost looks like the West End needs to take notice ASAP.
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Zoe Roberts has appeared on Broadway in 1 shows.
Zoe Roberts has appeared on London's West End in 1 shows.
Zoe Roberts's first West End show was Operation Mincemeat which opened in 2023
Outstanding Book of a Musical (Drama Desk Awards) for Operation Mincemeat, Outstanding Lyrics (Drama Desk Awards) for Operation Mincemeat, Outstanding Book of a Musical (Broadway or Off-Broadway) (Outer Critics Circle Awards) for Operation Mincemeat, Outstanding Score (Broadway or Off-Broadway) (Outer Critics Circle Awards) for Operation Mincemeat, Best Book of a Musical (Tony Awards) for Operation Mincemeat: A New Musical and BEST ORIGINAL SCORE (Music and/or Lyrics) (Tony Awards) for Operation Mincemeat: A New Musical.
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