Jerry Zaks

Biography

Jerry Zaks is a German-born American stage and television director, and actor known for his Tony Award-winning work on The House of Blue Leaves, Lend Me a Tenor, Six Degrees of Separation, and Guys and Dolls. Born in Stuttgart, Germany to Holocaust survivors, Zaks immigrated to the US with his family at age two and went on to graduate from Dartmouth College and receive a Master of Fine Arts from Smith College.