Sara Zaker
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Sara Zaker is a major theater and television actor, entrepreneur and social activist from Bangladesh
.
New York in producing Sisimpur, the Bengali
edition of the Sesame Street
. She is also the executive director of Asiatic Marketing Communications Limited, director of Asiatic Events Marketing Limited, and the managing director of Ddhoni Chitra Ltd.
’s Les Femmes Savantes
, Edward Albee
’s Everything in the Garden
, Albert Camus
’s Le Malentendu, Bertolt Brecht
’s The Good Person of Szechwan
& Mr Puntila and his Man Matti
, Carl Zuckmayer
’s The Captain of Kopenick
, William Shakespeare
’s Macbeth
, Irwin Shaw
’s Bury the Dead
and Anton Chekov’s The Sea Gull
.
With over a thousand appearances on stage, Sarah Zaker’s important performances include Kona in Badal Sircar’s Baki Itihas (The Other Side of History, 1973), Shen Te/ Shui Ta in an adaptation of Brecht’s Der Gute Mensch von Sezuan in , 1976 (The Good Person of Sezuan; directed by Aly Zaker featuring Asaduzzaman Noor
as Yang Sun and Abul Hayat as Wang), and Jubati in Syed Shamsul Huq
’s Irsha (Jealousy; directed by Ataur Rahman). She was the director of critically acclaimed production of Mukhosh, (an adaptation of Ariel Dorfman
’s Death and the Maiden
(featuring Hayat as the Lawyer and Noor as the Doctor, 1993).
of Bangladesh.
Bangladesh
Bangladesh , officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh is a sovereign state located in South Asia. It is bordered by India on all sides except for a small border with Burma to the far southeast and by the Bay of Bengal to the south...
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Early life
She initially started off in the field of hard core science with a major in Biochemistry. She completed her BA Honors and Masters from Dhaka University in English Literature. She also trained at the British Theatre Institute (1981).Career
Sara Zaker's professional career began in 1995 in the field of Market Research. She is the Managing Director of MRC Mode Ltd, a market research company in Bangladesh. She is working as the project head of Nayantara Communications since its inception in 2004. Nayantara is the co-producer of Sesame WorkshopSesame Workshop
Sesame Workshop, formerly known as the Children's Television Workshop , is a Worldwide American non-profit organization behind the production of several educational children's programs that have run on public broadcasting around the world...
New York in producing Sisimpur, the Bengali
Bengali language
Bengali or Bangla is an eastern Indo-Aryan language. It is native to the region of eastern South Asia known as Bengal, which comprises present day Bangladesh, the Indian state of West Bengal, and parts of the Indian states of Tripura and Assam. It is written with the Bengali script...
edition of the Sesame Street
Sesame Street
Sesame Street has undergone significant changes in its history. According to writer Michael Davis, by the mid-1970s the show had become "an American institution". The cast and crew expanded during this time, including the hiring of women in the crew and additional minorities in the cast. The...
. She is also the executive director of Asiatic Marketing Communications Limited, director of Asiatic Events Marketing Limited, and the managing director of Ddhoni Chitra Ltd.
Acting
Sara Zaker has been active on the stage as an actress since 1973. She works with Nagorik Natya Sampradaya, a leading theatre group of Bangladesh that produced, among other plays, adaptations of MolièreMolière
Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, known by his stage name Molière, was a French playwright and actor who is considered to be one of the greatest masters of comedy in Western literature...
’s Les Femmes Savantes
Les Femmes Savantes
Les Femmes savantes is a play by Molière in five acts, written in verse. A satire on academic pretention, female education, and préciosité , it was one of his most popular comedies...
, Edward Albee
Edward Albee
Edward Franklin Albee III is an American playwright who is best known for The Zoo Story , The Sandbox , Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? , and a rewrite of the screenplay for the unsuccessful musical version of Capote's Breakfast at Tiffany's . His works are considered well-crafted, often...
’s Everything in the Garden
Everything In The Garden
Everything in the Garden is a play by Giles Cooper, first produced by The Royal Shakespeare Company on 13 March 1962 at the Arts Theatre, London....
, Albert Camus
Albert Camus
Albert Camus was a French author, journalist, and key philosopher of the 20th century. In 1949, Camus founded the Group for International Liaisons within the Revolutionary Union Movement, which was opposed to some tendencies of the Surrealist movement of André Breton.Camus was awarded the 1957...
’s Le Malentendu, Bertolt Brecht
Bertolt Brecht
Bertolt Brecht was a German poet, playwright, and theatre director.An influential theatre practitioner of the 20th century, Brecht made equally significant contributions to dramaturgy and theatrical production, the latter particularly through the seismic impact of the tours undertaken by the...
’s The Good Person of Szechwan
The Good Person of Szechwan
The Good Person of Szechwan is a play written by the German theatre practitioner Bertolt Brecht, in collaboration with Margarete Steffin and Ruth Berlau. The play was begun in 1938 but not completed until 1943, while the author was in exile in the United States...
& Mr Puntila and his Man Matti
Mr Puntila and his Man Matti
Mr Puntila and his Man Matti is an epic comedy by the German modernist playwright Bertolt Brecht. It was written in 1940 and first performed in 1948....
, Carl Zuckmayer
Carl Zuckmayer
Carl Zuckmayer was a German writer and playwright.-Biography:Born in Nackenheim in Rheinhessen, he was four years old when his family moved to Mainz. With the outbreak of World War I, he finished school with a facilitated "emergency"-Abitur and volunteered for military service...
’s The Captain of Kopenick
The Captain of Köpenick (play)
The Captain of Köpenick is a satirical play by the German dramatist Carl Zuckmayer. First produced in 1931, the play tells the story, based on a true event that happened in 1906, of a down-on-his-luck ex-convict shoemaker who impersonates a Prussian Guards officer, holds the mayor of a small town...
, William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon"...
’s Macbeth
Macbeth
The Tragedy of Macbeth is a play by William Shakespeare about a regicide and its aftermath. It is Shakespeare's shortest tragedy and is believed to have been written sometime between 1603 and 1607...
, Irwin Shaw
Irwin Shaw
Irwin Shaw was a prolific American playwright, screenwriter, novelist, and short-story author whose written works have sold more than 14 million copies. He is best-known for his novel, The Young Lions about the fate of three soldiers during World War II that was made into a film starring Marlon...
’s Bury the Dead
Bury the Dead
Bury the Dead is an expressionist anti-war drama by the American playwright Irwin Shaw. It dramatises the refusal of six dead soldiers during an unspecified war—who represent a cross-section of American society—to be buried...
and Anton Chekov’s The Sea Gull
The Sea Gull
The Sea Gull is a 1968 British-American-Greek drama film directed by Sidney Lumet. The screenplay by Moura Budberg is adapted from Anton Chekhov's classic 1896 play The Seagull....
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With over a thousand appearances on stage, Sarah Zaker’s important performances include Kona in Badal Sircar’s Baki Itihas (The Other Side of History, 1973), Shen Te/ Shui Ta in an adaptation of Brecht’s Der Gute Mensch von Sezuan in , 1976 (The Good Person of Sezuan; directed by Aly Zaker featuring Asaduzzaman Noor
Asaduzzaman Noor
Asaduzzaman Noor is an actor, entertainer and a politician and activist from Bangladesh.He is mostly noted during his early days as a Bangladesh Television drama artist. In the 90's he acted in a drama titled Kothao Keu Nei - There is no one anywhere...
as Yang Sun and Abul Hayat as Wang), and Jubati in Syed Shamsul Huq
Syed Shamsul Huq
Syed Shamsul Huq is an award-winning Bangladeshi author and poet. he contributed to almost all forms of literature in Bengali language.- References :...
’s Irsha (Jealousy; directed by Ataur Rahman). She was the director of critically acclaimed production of Mukhosh, (an adaptation of Ariel Dorfman
Ariel Dorfman
Vladimiro Ariel Dorfman is an Argentine-Chilean novelist, playwright, essayist, academic, and human rights activist. A citizen of the United States since 2004, he has been a professor of literature and Latin American Studies at Duke University, in Durham, North Carolina since 1985.-Personal...
’s Death and the Maiden
Death and the Maiden (play)
Death and the Maiden is a 1990 play by Chilean playwright Ariel Dorfman. The world premiere was staged at the Royal Court Theatre in London on 9 July 1991, directed by Lindsay Posner...
(featuring Hayat as the Lawyer and Noor as the Doctor, 1993).
Activism
Sara Zaker is a founding member of the Board of Trustees of Liberation War MuseumLiberation War Museum
The Liberation War Museum is a museum in Segunbagicha, Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh that commemorates the Bangladesh Liberation War, which led to the independence of Bangladesh from Pakistan....
of Bangladesh.
Personal life
Sara Zaker is married to actor Aly Zaker. They are blessed with two children Iresh Zaker and Sriya Sharbojoya. Both Iresh and Sriya are working in Asiatic Marketing Communications Limited as an Executive Director and a Brand Communication Manager respectively. Their son Iresh Zaker is also an actor and entrepreneur.Sources
- Sara Zaker on BDPortal24
- Sara Zaker Interview on the Daily Star
- Sara Zaker Interview on the Daily Sun
- Sara Zaker on Books Rag