Zayd Dohrn

Zayd Dohrn was born and raised in New York City. His full-length plays include Outside People (The Vineyard Theatre/Naked Angels), Reborning (The Public/SPF) and Sick (Kitchen Dog) – all published by Samuel French – as well as Want (Steppenwolf First Look). His work has been produced and developed at Playwrights Horizons, Theatre for One, MTC, Ars Nova, South Coast Rep, Boston Playwrights’, New York Theatre Workshop, Berkshire Theatre Festival, Alchemy Theatre and the Royal Court Theatre of London, among others. He is currently writing screenplays for The American Film Company, Voltage Pictures, and Vox3 Films, and developing a drama series at HBO. He earned his MFA from NYU and was a Lila Acheson Wallace Fellow at Juilliard, where he twice received Lincoln Center's Lecomte du Nouy Prize. He teaches playwriting and screenwriting at Northwestern University.