The Possibilities Inside Surrender with Zachary Quinto

ZACHARY QUINTO hails from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He attended Carnegie Mellon where he received a BFA in Acting. In 2007 he was cast as 'Sylar' on the hit NBC series Heroes. That same year, he was cast as ‘Spock’ in the JJ Abrams directed reboot of the Star Trek franchise. He starred in the first season of American Horror Story in 2011, and then won a Critic’s Choice Award and Emmy Award nomination for his portrayal of ‘Dr. Oliver Thredson’ on American Horror Story: Asylum. Quinto appeared in the 2010 Signature revival of Tony Kushner’s Angels In America, for which he won a Theater World Award and a Drama Desk Award nomination. He made his Broadway debut in the 2013 Tony Award winning production of The Glass Menagerie. He was also seen in Noah Haidle's Smokefall and in the Joe Mantello directed revival of The Boys in The Band, which won the 2019 Tony for Best Revival of a Play. He's hosted the reboot of In Search Of on the History Channel, and starred in the AMC series NOS4A2. Most recently, he reprised his role as 'Harold' in the film adaption of The Boys In The Band on Netflix. Quinto began his production company Before the Door Pictures in 2008 and produced such films as Margin Call, All Is Lost, A Most Violent Year, and Aardvark. At the end of 2019, the new iteration of Before The Door signed first look deals with AMC Studios for scripted projects and with Spoke Studios for unscripted fare.

Weekly Round-Up:

Listen to Brene Brown’s  Unlocking Us podcastepisode featuring Sonya Renee Taylor on “The Body is Not An Apology.”

Follow that by reading Sonya Renee Taylor’s book The Body Is Not an Apology.

There are Vedic and Transcendental meditation courses available throughout the US - apps like Ten Percent Happier, Calm, and Insight Timer (I really like the teacher Sarah Blondin) are easily accessible and can travel with you wherever you go.

Listen to Krista Tippet’s On Being podcast episode, “You are not alone across time” with Brian Doerries focused on his public art project, The Theater Of War.

Read Steven Pressfield’s book The War of Art which Zach (and Susan Blackwell) recommend.