Zachary Tomlinson

Zachary Tomlinson is a non-profit leader, educator, and theater director with over ten years of experience working with New York City arts and education organizations. He has been part of the INYC community since 2015 and was delighted to join the team as Adult Finance and Operations Director and Coach in March 2023. He has served as a Co-Executive Director of INYC since February 2024.

From 2017 to 2023, Zachary served as the Executive and Artistic Director of The Center at West Park, a community performing arts center based in a historic Manhattan church. At CWP, he developed programs that supported over 300 performances of theater, dance, music, opera, puppetry, and interdisciplinary performance; created opportunities for over 600 individual artists; and engaged over 15,000 audience members. He is particularly proud of CWP's work, in the words of founder Bob Brashear, "at the intersection of art and activism, of beauty and justice."

As a theater director, Zachary brings an experimental approach to awaken and reimagine classic texts. With his theater company Strange Harbor, he created original adaptions of Moby-Dick, The Brothers Karamazov, Shakespeare's English history plays, and the Book of Judith. In recent years, he directed King Lear with Hamlet Isn't Dead, Anne Carson's version of Antigone at Brooklyn College, and The Glass Menagerie at the Glove Theater. He believes deeply in theater's power to reflect and transform our society, our relationships, and ourselves.

Originally from San Francisco, Zachary lives in Brooklyn with his wife, Sarah (aka Zaps), and their son, Noah.