Zach Fike Hodges
Zach Fike Hodges
MA with Distinction in Acting, Royal Central School of Speech and Drama/University of London · BA in Theater Performance, Fordham University and the Moscow Art Theatre School
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Zach Fike Hodges is an actor, writer, filmmaker and arts educator based in New York City. Film: I’m Your Dog (dir. Tess Goldwyn), Descent (opposite Maura Tierney), Eleanor the Great (dir. Scarlett Johansson), My Bird Is Sick! (opposite Janeane Garofalo, executive produced by Cate Blanchett), It’s a Forever Frontier (opposite Bellamy Young). His performance as Louis Ironson in Tony Kushner’s Angels in America: Parts One and Two (BEDLAM/Central Square Theater) was hailed as “a tour-de-force marvel” by Edge Media Network and earned him an Elliot Norton Award nomination for Outstanding Featured Performance. Off-Broadway/New York: Uncle Vanya (dir. Dmitry Krymov, La MaMa), Arcadia (BEDLAM), Public Enemy (The Pearl), Metamorphoses (dir. Dmitry Krymov, La MaMa), the world premieres of The Book of Will (dir. Davis McCallum) and Kate Hamill’s Pride and Prejudice (Hudson Valley Shakespeare), Love’s Labour’s Lost (The Acting Company), Leonce and Lena and Electra (Two-Headed Rep). Regional: the world premiere of RENT in Concert with the National Symphony Orchestra (Kennedy Center), Our Class(Arlekin/The Huntington), Riddle of the Trilobites (dir. Lee Sunday Evans, Flint Rep).
Zach is a company member of KrymovLab NYC, where he regularly collaborates on new pieces for the theatre with acclaimed Russian auteur Dmitry Krymov, whom The New York Times named “one of the finest theatre-makers in the world.” Zach’s original one-person adaptation of Frank Wedekind’s Spring Awakening premiered Off-Broadway as part of the United Solo Festival. He is a former member of The Bats, the resident acting company of the Flea Theater, and he has served as a senior staff member of the Williamstown Theatre Festival. He has developed new work with Clubbed Thumb, New Georges, The National Black Theatre, The Fire This Time Festival, Bay Street Theatre, Playwrights’ Center, and LubDub.
Zach’s debut screenplay, The Dairy Bar, was the recipient of the 2026 South Carolina IndieGrants award, and features Constance Shulman and Gus Birney, directed by Tess Goldwyn. As an educator, Zach chairs and teaches acting for the 9th Grade Drama Program at the South Carolina Governor’s School for the Arts and Humanities and is a teaching artist for Hudson Valley Shakespeare and New York Theatre Workshop. Upcoming: moments after Aias, directed by Andrew Watkins, at JACK, Summer 2026.
