my name is joe orwac and was the lead act in teatro zinzanni for seven years. there are so many reasons to bring tz back, but for me the most important thing is the community, the relationships. tz is a family. it's not just a job that you go to. norm and annie have created this amazing family and as a performer who performed all over the world, there has no other experience like teatro zinzanni. i was able to bring my family out here. my daughters went to school of the arts in san francisco. my other daughter want to san francisco state university, all because of tz. i got to come out here from new york city. i didn't think there was any life outside of new york city and here i am in san francisco and it's the most wonderful place and teatro zinzanni made that all possible for me. and the relationships and to leave this theater, people say that you know you have a good show when the audience doesn't leave necessarily talking about you. but they leave talking about themselves. and night after night, the comments, the audiences from all over the world would come