Zach Ruchkin

Zach Ruchkin was born in Baltimore, Maryland and attended St. Paul's School for Boys where he developed an interest in acting. After participating in an acting class when he was 14, Zach subsequently performed in an ensemble adaptation of the Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged). In high school, he decided to study Theater within the Higher Level International Baccalaureate Program and ended up performing as Charlie Gordon in Flowers for Algernon his Junior year, and as Macbeth in his Senior year. Zach attended American University his Freshman year where he played Lucy Westphal in a gender-bent adaptation of William McNulty's Dracula. This is also where he also discovered a love for both directing and acting for the camera. He co-directed a student production of Annie Baker's Circle Mirror Transformation as well as landed a small role in a web-series called Fence. He then transferred to Towson University to study film.