Film · Television · Theatre

Acting

I trained as a dancer before I trained as an actor. Then came Juilliard, Broadway, and eventually the camera. The body still gets a vote.

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Zach Villa portrait
Current / recent
Selected screen

The roles have ranged from the Night Stalker to astronauts, addicts, detectives, artists and guys who probably should have made better choices.

Selected stage

On
stage.

Broadway horses. Shakespeare in Central Park. David Byrne at MASS MoCA. The stage résumé has never been especially normal.

Original Broadway production poster

War Horse

Joey / Topthorn / Coco

Lincoln Center Theater · Original Broadway Company
2009 production company · Photo: Joan Marcus

Twelfth Night

Ensemble

Shakespeare in the Park · The Public Theater
Here Lies Love — show artwork

Here Lies Love

Original Workshop Cast

MASS MoCA / Williamstown Theatre Festival
Training / movement

The body
came first.

Dance was the first serious training — especially rhythm tap, performance and choreography. Interlochen and Juilliard turned performance into a profession; years of movement still show up in timing, physical transformation and the way I build a character.

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Selected here. The complete filmography lives on IMDb; games, animation and narrative audio have their own room.