Jeff Zinn
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Jeff Zinn is an American director and actor.
He 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 celebrated film Saturday Night Fever in 1977, featured in the iconic opening sequence underscored by the Bee Gees' "Stayin' Alive". He earned a B.A. from Franconia College and M.A. from New York University. Post graduate studies an MFA 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.[2][3] He is the son of historian Howard Zinn.
References[]
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2012-04-19. Retrieved 2011-11-02.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
- ^ Simonson, Robert (August 4, 2002). "A New Vigor for Theater on the Cape". New York Times.
- ^ Mullen, Matt (Aug 5, 2015). "Jeff Zinn On The Book That Took Him 20 Years To Write". WBUR. Retrieved March 12, 2021.
External links[]
- Jeff Zinn
- Biography at the American Repertory Theatre
- Jeff Zinn at IMDb
- Jeff Zinn at the Internet Broadway Database
- 1949 births
- American directors
- American male stage actors
- American people of Austrian-Jewish descent
- American people of Russian-Jewish descent
- Jewish American male actors
- Clark University faculty
- Franconia College alumni
- Harvard Kennedy School alumni
- Living people
- New York University alumni
- Institute for Advanced Theater Training, Harvard University alumni