Zach Ruchkin

Zach Ruchkin was born Zachary Taylor Ruchkin in Baltimore, Maryland, to Karen Elaine Robertson and Peter Mark Ruchkin. He attended St. Paul's School for Boys in Brooklandville, Maryland 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 left American University and transferred to Towson University to study film. Zach both acted and studied film at Towson University where he was involved in a number of student film productions. Although his first love is acting, specifically for the theater, he also enjoys both editing and documentary filmmaking.