Jerry Zaks (born September 7, 1946) is a German-born American stage and television director, and actor. He won the Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play and Drama Desk Award for directing "The House of Blue Leaves", "Lend Me a Tenor", and "Six Degrees of Separation" and the Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical and Drama Desk Award for "Guys and Dolls".
"Lend Me a Tenor" was filmed in New York.
Jerry Zaks won a Tony for "Lend Me a Tenor" so it had to be a play not a film.