Zachary R. Mannheimer
For The Subjective Theatre Company: Directed Karel Capek's The White Plague and co-produced The UnConvention (2004), Directed Jesse Alick's Sleep Awake (2003), John Osborne's Look Back in Anger (2002), Eugene Ionesco's Victims of Duty (2001, 2002 OOBR Award for Overall Excellence), Set Design for John Patrick Shanley's The Big Funk (2003), Producer of Mac Wellman's 7 Blowjobs (2005) and Co-Wrote and Directed Burt Reynolds' Amazing Napalm Powered Oven and Other Paid Programming for 2001 NYC Fringe Festival. Zachary created and directs STC's Busking Bonanza. Zachary is the Producing Artistic Director and a Founder of The Subjective Theatre Company www.SubjectiveTheatre.org.
Other credits as a director include Jim Cartwright's Road (2001), Ionesco's The Bald Soprano (2000), Harold Pinter's The Dumb Waiter (1999), his own work Madagascar for the New Hope Arts Commission (2000), and Assistant Director for Eugene O'Neill's The Moon of the Caribbees for the Bat Theater Company (2001). As a writer, his play Material was workshopped for The Royal Court's Young Writer's Programme in London, England (2000).
Zachary has been an intern with New Georges, The Bat Theater Company and The Present Company. He was the director of Fringe Al Fresco, the 100% outdoor version of the NYC International Fringe Festival (2001-2002). Zachary has taught and lectured at Wagner College, Muhlenberg College, The East Harlem Development Association, and St. Margaret's in Ascot, England.
Zachary currently serves as Corporate Sponsorship Associate for HERE Arts Center. Zachary previously served as the Managing Director for East Coast Artists, a 10-year old not-for-profit theatre company producing adaptations of classic works under the Artistic Direction of Richard Schechner from 2003-2004. Additionally, Zachary was the Administrator of New York Dance Affinity (2003) and founded the short lived Public Works Project (2001-2002), a street-theatre activist group comprised of five Independent NYC theatre companies. There he produced the activist events Pig-Snout Subway and Chain-Gang Subway on NYC subways, and White Trash Story, a 10-minute rendition of West Side Story at the TKTS booth in Times Square, as well as publishing the theatrical newsletter The Geek.
Zachary is the founder and current president of The Community Dish, a consortium of over 60 NYC Independent Theatre Companies who meet bi-monthly to share a meal and ideas: www.CommunityDish.org.
Zachary has received training from The Second City in Chicago, Goldsmiths College at University of London and studied under playwrights Maria Irene Fornes, James Ryan, Erik Ehn, Mac Wellman and directors Richard Schechner and John Clancy. He has previously held positions at Samuel French London, The Royal Court, and Tribeca Performing Arts Center. He holds a dual BA in Theatre Arts and Philosophy from Muhlenberg College in Allentown, Pennsylvania.