Jeff Zinn

Jeff Zinn (born 1952) is an American director and actor, who has appeared in the film Zabriskie Point, directed by Michelangelo Antonioni. In theatre, Zinn played Danny in the off-Broadway production of Sexual Perversity in Chicago by David Mamet, and Trety in the Broadway production of The Suicide by Nikolai Erdman starring Derek Jacobi. Zinn was a stand-in and photo double for John Travolta in the 1977 film Saturday Night Fever, featured in the iconic opening sequence underscored by the Bee Gees' "Stayin' Alive".

Jeff Zinn
EducationFranconia College (BA)
New York University (MA)
Harvard University (MFA)

Biography

Education

Zinn earned a Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) from Franconia College where he trained with Ronald Bennet, a former member of the Michael Chekhov Players, and an M.A. from New York University. Post graduate studies include completion of the directing program at the American Repertory Theatre Institute for Advanced Theatre Training at Harvard University and a certificate in executive leadership from the Kennedy School of Government.[1]

He was artistic director of Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater from 1988 -2011 and Managing Director of Gloucester Stage Company from 2015-2018.[2] He is the author of The Existential Actor: Life and Death, Onstage and Off (Smith & Kraus, 2015) [3]

Political Views

Jeff Zinn is a conservative thinker, having departed from the views he once shared with his father. Having supported Bernie Sanders in the 2016 Democratic presidential primaries and Jill Stein in the 2016 U.S. Presidential election, Zinn endorsed Donald Trump in the 2020 U.S. Presidential election out of a desire to "once again feel pride in my country on the international stage."

References
  1. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2012-04-19. Retrieved 2011-11-02.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  2. Simonson, Robert (August 4, 2002). "A New Vigor for Theater on the Cape". New York Times.
  3. Mullen, Matt (Aug 5, 2015). "Jeff Zinn On The Book That Took Him 20 Years To Write". WBUR. Retrieved March 12, 2021.
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