Zack Gonder grew up near Chicago and trained at the Chicago Academy for the Arts under the tutelage of Randy Duncan. He graduated in 2018 from the Juilliard School, where he performed works by Austin McCormick, Aszure Barton, Pam Tanowitz, Richard Alston, Gustavo Ramirez Sansano, and Crystal Pite. He recently was in the Broadway show Illinoise at the St. James Theater, as well as its Off Broadway runs at the Park Avenue Armory and the Chicago Shakespeare Theater. He has performed with Pam Tanowitz Dance, Brian Brooks Moving Company, PARA.MAR Dance, Zvi Dance, and the Mark Morris Dance Group. He is very excited to be part of Twyla Tharp Dance.