Zaloom has received a Village Voice OBIE, an American Theater Wing Design Award, New York Dance and Performance Award (the “Bessie”), L.A. Weekly Critics’ Award, and 4 Citations of Excellence in the Art of Puppetry from UNIMA-USA. He’s also been granted a Guggenheim Fellowship, 4 Jim Henson Foundation grants, a COLA Fellowship, 4 National Endowment for the Arts grants, to name a few.

He has taught puppetry and cantastoria at colleges and universities in the US and Europe, including Cal Arts, Rhode Island School of Design, Emerson College, the Omega Institute, George Mason University, the University of Michigan, and the Institut Internationale de la Marrionnette, Charlesville, France, amongst others.