She left behind an unfinished college degree to find herself yet again in a world where little of what she knew applied. Here I was in Bangkok, it's 110 degrees, and there's no context at all. She studied Asian theater, only to discover that Alvina Krause might well have been a softie. Zinoman cries out. Nothing was more frightening than studying theater in Asia.
Technique is vital, but only as a means to another end.
She also learned three Asian languages, gave birth to two of her three children and taught theater classes. She started to direct plays. After AU, Zinoman opened her own school. The new, improved Studio Theatre will carry on its mission, she says, but without the problems and difficulties of the past, when she was obsessed with not wanting to fail, with placing extraordinary demands on people, with wanting to get all A's as Joy the schoolgirl once had. In short, things have changed, a result no doubt of several influences including death.