Education
Harvard University; New York University. Harvard Kennedy School.
Harvard University; New York University. Harvard Kennedy School.
He played Danny in the off-Broadway production of Sexual Perversity in Chicago by David Mamet and Trety in 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. His feet are featured in the iconic opening sequence underscored by the Bee Gees" Stayin" Alive.
He earned a Bachelor of Arts from Franconia College and Master of Arts from New York University.
Post graduate studies include the American Repertory Theatre Institute for Advanced Theatre Training at Harvard University and the Kennedy School of Government. He was artistic director of Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater from 1988 -2011.
He is currently a professor at Clark University. He is the author of The Existential Actor: Life and Death, Onstage and Office, Smith and Kraus Publishers, 2015.