Zayd Ayers Dohrn is an award-winning writer of plays, screenplays, and podcasts. His plays include The Profane (Playwrights Horizons), Outside People (The Vineyard/Naked Angels), Sick (National New Play Network), and Reborning (The Public/SPF).

He has written a podcast for Crooked Media, screenplays for Netflix and FilmNation, and developed television pilots at Showtime, Sundance TV, HBO, and BBC America.

He received his MFA from NYU, was a Playwriting Fellow at Juilliard, and is currently a Professor at Northwestern and Director of the MFA in Writing for the Screen + Stage.