Kalan Sherrard is a street performer, puppeteer, anarchist, posthumanist and former Occupy Wall Street protester. New York Magazine describes zz as "NYC’s Most Avant-Garde Nihilist Subway Performer". Zz was featured on the cover of the magazine’s October 24, 2011 issue. In December 2014, Sherrard was arrested in Florida while protesting an Art Basel art show on charges of disorderly conduct and resisting arrest without violence. Sherrard says zz was arrested twice at Art Basel. In January 2015, zz was interviewed by the New York Post about the bank robbery by , with whom zz shared a jail cell.