Zach has been an editor in The Washington Post Style section for ten years, working on coverage of culture, fashion, politics and more. He was the arts and culture editor at L.A. Weekly for five years, and has written for The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Slate, Los Angeles Times, and other publications.

Zach has appeared on CNN, NPR and other outlets, and wrote the companion book to the hit Broadway musical “Avenue Q.” He served as a Tony Awards voter and was appointed to the nominating committee for the Lucille Lortel Awards. He taught journalism at Loyola Marymount University and has taught creative nonfiction at the University of Virginia Young Writers Workshop, and has been a guest teacher at the USC Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism and UCLA Extension.

Zach has received several honors from the L.A. Press Club, including runner-up for journalist of the year at the 2013 National Entertainment Journalism Awards. He won a Southern California Journalism Award in 2013 for his article about a revolutionary magic show, and in 2015 for his feature on how television is spreading social justice messages in India. He also won a prize at the 2014 National Entertainment Journalism Awards for his article about slash fiction, a form of fan fiction that invents romantic relationships between two straight male television characters. He won two awards in 2010 for his Slate article that questioned why entertainment journalists don’t factor in inflation when reporting box office records.

Zach has also performed standup comedy at the Laugh Factory and other venues, and worked as a researcher and writers assistant for the Fox drama series “Lie to Me,” writing a song for the show entitled “White Lie.”

Zach grew up in Chevy Chase, Maryland and graduated from Princeton University. He is married to Giselle Pincus-Roth.