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. Scarlet Johansson), My Bird Is Sick! (opposite Janeane Garofolo, executive produced by Cate Blanchett), It’s a Forever Frontier (opposite Bellmay Young). His performance as Louis Ironson in Tony Kushner’s Angels in America: Parts One and Two (BEDLAM/Central Sq.) 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/LaMama), Arcadia (BEDLAM), Public Enemy (The Pearl), Metamorphoses (dir. Dmitry Krymov/LaMama), world premiers of The Book of Will (dir. Davis McCallum), Kate Hamill’s Pride and Prejudice (Hudson Valley Shakespeare), Love’s Labour’s Lost (The Acting Company), Leonce and Lena, Electra (Two-Headed Rep); Regional: 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, who 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 Theatre, 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 Schulman 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. www.zachfikehodges.com
