Zen Zen Zo Physical Theatre is a Brisbane-based performance company and training centre which was founded by Lynne Bradley and Simon Woods in 1992. Zen Zen Zo has gained a reputation for creating innovative, confronting and often controversial theatre which both excites and challenges its audiences.

The company's performance repertoire ranges from radical interpretations of the classics to self-devised pieces and is heavily inspired by both the Japanese performing arts and the aesthetic of European avant-garde theatre.

After debuting with the production Never the Elephant (a loose translation of Zen Zen Zo), the company went on to produce Galileo, The Zoo Story and The Way of Mud (presented as apart of the 1993 Brisbane Fringe Festival). Between 1993 and 1995 the company relocated to Kyoto, Japan, where they participated in a fruitful cultural exchange with local Japanese artists. This collaboration resulted in the mounting of two large-scale bilingual productions, The Cult of Dionysus and Macbeth and assisted the company in establishing its key philosophies and training methodologies.

Based back in Brisbane in 1996, Zen Zen Zo remounted the landmark production of The Cult of Dionysus for the inaugural Brisbane Festival and went on to create the critically acclaimed Butoh-based production, Unleashed. 1997 saw the controversial production of The Marriage of Figaro, a collaboration between Zen Zen Zo and the Queensland Conservatorium of Music which was presented as apart of the Stage X Festival. In following years, the Queensland Arts Council supported the development of two schools touring productions, Visions of Macbeth and The Man Who Sold the World which toured extensively through Queensland, South Australia and Victoria for the next four years. During that time, the company produced a remounted version of Macbeth: As Told By The Weird Sisters (Singapore Youth Festival 2002, Optus Playhouse 2002), Steel Flesh (Brisbane Festival 1998), The Man Who Sold The World (Brisbane Festival 2000) and Unleashed (Adelaide Fringe Festival 2000).

Zen Zen Zo staged 3 co-productions in 2004: The Odyssey (QPAC), Wicked Bodies (La Boite) and Romeo & Juliet (schools touring production with Queensland Arts Coucil). The company also initiated the Queensland Performing Arts Centre's Artists-in-Residency program, with The Odyssey, which went on to win 3 Matilda Awards.

In early 2005 Zen Zen Zo relocated to the Old Museum in Spring Hill with the assistance of a Brisbane City Council grant which acknowledged the company's ongoing contribution to the cultural life of Brisbane. That year they also produced the Butoh inspired Those with Lucifer (with Strut n Fret Production House) and Romeo and Juliet (schools tour in Hong Kong).

2006 brought the large-scale promenade performance of Sub Con Warrior 1, performances at the 8th World Shakespeare Congress, The Australian Business Arts Foundation State Awards, The Drama Australia Conference and with the American band The Dresden Dolls in both Brisbane and London.

Over the progression of the company's history, they have developed a year-round actor training program that is available to adults, young people and schools.

The adult training programs include: Stomping Ground Summer Intensive Training Course, Winter Stomp Bootcamp, a Teachers Training Course for secondary school educators, a 6-month Company Internship for emerging artists, and weekly adult actor-training classes. In addition, Zen Zen Zo's youth and schools program involves physical theatre workshops and residencies in high schools throughout Australia and internationally, as well as Small Stomp Intensive Training Week for 14-18 yr olds, and weekly actor-training classes for teenagers. The company also travels extensively, hosting training intensives in Sydney, Melbourne, Darwin, Launceston, Canada, New Zealand and Hong Kong.