Bo Zenga - Details

Biography

Zenga’s current projects are attached with numerous distinguished actors and filmmakers, including Tom Cruise, Steven Spielberg, Nicholas Cage, Will Smith, and John Travolta.

For television, Zenga serves as executive producer on Are You Lonesome Tonight?, for CBS. He is also writing and producing the movie-of-the-week Unconditional Love.

On stage, Zenga wrote, produced, and directed Real Met At The ATM, which won a Los Angeles Drama Critics Award, and Original Scenes From Hell, which starred Billy Bob Thornton, and from which the Academy Award-winning film Sling Blade, was derived.

A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, where he attended the Wharton Business School, Bo Zenga started out as a banker on Wall Street for Chase Manhattan Bank during the day, while writing and directing plays at night. Zenga studied filmmaking at the American Film Institute.