Artist Profile
Zayd Dohrn was born and raised in New York City. His full-length plays include The Profane, Outside People, Want, Sick, and Reborning. His work has been produced and developed across the country and internationally, including, but not limited to, New York Stage & Film, South Coast Rep, Manhattan Theatre Club, Barrington Stage, Chuatauqua, Southern Rep, Theatre for One, The Orchard Project, Ars Nova, and Chance Theater.
He won the 2016 Horton Foote American Play Prize, Chautaugua’s New Play Commission, Lincoln Center’s Lecomte du Nouy Prize, Theatre Master’ Visionary Playwright Award, the Kennedy Center Jean Kennedy Smith Award, the Sky Cooper American Playwriting Prize, and Dallas Critic’s and Independent Reviewers of New England Awards for Best New Play.
He has written screenplays for The American Film Company, Bedlam Productions, and Vox3 Films, and is developing television shows at Sundance TV, Showtime, and BBC America.
He earned his MFA from NYU and was a Lila Acheson Wallace Fellow at Julliard. He currently teaches in the MFA Program in Writing for the Stage & Screen at Northwestern University.