Jerry Zaks most recently directed Chazz Palminteri’s A Bronx Tale on Broadway as well as the acclaimed City Center Encores! production of Stairway to Paradise. He just completed the feature film Who Do You Love, which premiered at this years Toronto Film Festival. He has received four Tony Awards, four Drama Desks, two Outer Critics Circle Awards, an Obie and an NAACP Image Award nomination for his national tour of The Tap Dance Kid. He has directed more than 30 productions in New York, including Guys and Dolls (Tony Award), Six Degrees of Separation (Tony Award), Lend Me A Tenor (Tony Award), House of Blue Leaves (Tony Award), A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (Tony Award nomination), Smokey Joe's Café (Tony Award nomination), Anything Goes (Tony Award nomination), La Cage Aux Folles (Tony Award, Outstanding Musical Revival), The Foreigner (Obie Award), The Marriage of Bette and Boo (Obie Award), The Caine Mutiny Court Marshal, Little Shop of Horrors, The Man Who Came to Dinner, A Bad Friend, The Front Page, Laughter on the 23rd Floor, Assassins (Drama Desk nomination), Wencelass Square, Sister Mary Ignatius..., and Beyond Therapy. London: The Philadelphia Story at the Old Vic, starring Kevin Spacey. Film: the award-winning Marvin’s Room, starring Meryl Streep and Diane Keaton. TV: “Everybody Loves Raymond,” “Fraiser,” and “Two and a Half Men.” Mr. Zaks served as resident director at Lincoln Center Theater from 1986-1990 and is a founding member of the Ensemble Studio Theatre. A graduate of Dartmouth with an MFA from Smith, he received the SSDC’s George Abbott Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre in 1994 and an honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts from Dartmouth in 1999. Since 1990 he has been proudly affiliated with Jujamcyn Theaters.