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Jerry Zaks
JERRY ZAKS has directed the New York productions of The Caine Mutiny Court Marshall, La Cage Aux Folles, Little Shop Of Horrors, A Bad Friend, The Man Who Came To Dinner, Guys and Dolls, Six Degrees of Separation, Lend Me a Tenor, The House of Blue Leaves, Anything Goes, The Front Page, A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum, Smokey Joe's Cafe, and many others. He also directed the Old Vic's production of The Philadelphia Story in London and the award-winning film Marvin's Room, starring Meryl Streep and Diane Keaton. This fall he will direct Losing Louis at the Biltmore Theatre on Broadway for the Manhattan Theatre Club. Jerry Zaks served as Resident Director at Lincoln Center Theater from 1986-1990 and is a founding member of the Ensemble Studio Theatre. He has received four Tony Awards, four Drama Desk Awards, two Outer Critics Circle Awards, an Obie, and an NAACP Image Award nomination for his national tour of The Tap Dance Kid. He has also directed episodes for the long running hit comedies Everybody Loves Raymond and Frasier. A graduate of Dartmouth with an MFA from Smith, he received the George Abbott Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theater in 1994 and an honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts from Dartmouth in 1999. Since 1990 he has been proudly affiliated with Jujamcyn Theaters.

Bio as of March, 2008.



American Theatre Wing programs, interviews and/or credits include:

Working in the Theatre (video)
Production: House Of Blue Leaves - September, 1986 - Watch now.

Downstage Center (audio)
Jerry Zaks - July, 2010 - Listen Now.

SDCF Masters of the Stage (audio)
Jerry Zaks - July, 1986 - Listen Now.
Gene Saks and Jerry Zaks - April, 2000 - Listen Now.

Internet Broadway Database Listing (IBDB.com)