Zachary Dunbar trained as a concert pianist, composer and répétiteur in the US and the UK, and pursued an international career as a recitalist and concerto soloist. After completing his Master degree at Yale, he was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to study at the Royal College of Music. Recently, a freelance practice was formed out of a convergence with theatre and Zachary has explored notions of musicality across soundscape drama, dance, radio podcast and mainstream musical theatre.

He has taken classes with Marcello Magni, Annabel Arden, Toby Jones, Guy Dartnell, Antonio Gil-Martinez, and Ione Meyer (British Beijing Opera Society). A fully-funded PhD (Royal Holloway) on the Greek tragic chorus was followed by visiting lectureships at the University of Sussex and Central before he joined the MA Music Theatre staff in September 2008. He also teaches on Central's MA Acting prorgamme, and currently serves as an external examiner for St Mary's University College, London.He has written and composed several musicals which have all had performances in the UK and commissioned plays (writer/director) include Edinburgh Fringe First-nominated Out of Character and recently Quaternary. With his company Zeb Fontaine he has created contemporary re-imaginings of Greek Tragedy with critically successful fringe performances in Camden People’s Theatre, Pleasance, Bloomsbury, Brighton Underbelly, and the JungeHunde festival in Denmark.

Most recently, Zachary was MD and performer for the new Charlotte Jones play, The Diva in Me, Brighton Festival, Pavilion Theatre (Argus Angel Award), UK tour, and BBC Radio 4 drama. The production is scheduled to appear in the ‘Brits on Broadway’ festival in New York (2012).

Current works-in-progress include AntigoneX (a contemporary reworking of Sophocles' Antigone in an age of Science), Divo (a music play, with Tanya Ronder), and Life! a new musical (with Geoff Page, MMD)

His has academic publications in the field of Greek tragedy and Music Theatre with Duckworth Press, Studies in Musical Theatre, and forthcoming with Cambridge University Press and Oxford University Press.