Biography of Zack Calhoon

Zack is an actor/playwright who graduated from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts where he had studied at the Atlantic Theater Company Acting School and the Classical Studio. Zack is a Founding member and the General Manager of the Dreamscape Theatre. Dreamscape credits: Lee in True West, Hamlet in Hamlet, Jamie in The Credeaux Canvas, Antonio in The Merchant of Venice, Banquo in Macbeth. NY credits: Edmund in King Lear, Variation in the World Premiere production of Giant-N-Variation, Dex in the U.S. premiere of Irvine Welsh's (author of Trainspotting) play, You'll Have Had Your Hole at the 2004 New York International Fringe Festival; Prince Hal in Henry IV Part 1 (Boomerang Theater Company); Lady Anne in Richard III (Judith Shakespeare Co.); The Player in Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead, Peace by Aristophanes (New York Innovative Theatre Award nomination for Best New Musical), Sebastian in Twelfth Night (Milk Can Theatre Co.); and Chiron in Titus Andronicus (Expanded Arts). Regional credits: Romeo in Romeo & Juliet, Proteus in The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Demetrius in A Midsummer Night's Dream, Nym in The Merry Wives of Windsor, Hubert in King John, Borachio in Much Ado About Nothing (Actors Shakespeare Co.), Prince John in The Lion in Winter (Pentacle Theatre), and Laertes in Fortinbras (Albany Civic Theater). Playwriting credits include: Krueger and Marlowe, P.I.. Zack is a certified actor/combatant with the Society of American Fight Directors, a member of the Actors Equity, the Dramatist Guild, and an Eagle Scout.