Zayd Dohrn was born underground and raised in New York City. His plays include The Profane
(Playwrights Horizons), Outside People (Vineyard Theatre/Naked Angels), Want (Steppenwolf
First Look), Sick (Berkshire Theatre Festival), and Reborning (The Public/SPF).

His work has been produced and developed across the country and internationally, including at
New York Stage & Film, The O'Neill Playwrights Conference, South Coast Rep, Manhattan Theatre
Club, Theatre for One, The Orchard Project, Ars Nova, SF Playhouse, New York Theatre Workshop,
Kitchen Dog Theater, Boston Playwrights', Brazil’s Visceral Companhia, Panama's Theatre Guild of
Ancon, the BrechtBauTheater in Tübingen, Germany, and the Royal Court Theatre of London.

He won the Horton Foote American Play Prize, Lincoln Center’s Lecomte du Nouy Prize,
Theatre Masters' Visionary Playwright Award, the Kennedy Center Jean Kennedy Smith Award,
the Sky Cooper American Playwriting Prize, and the Dallas Critic's Award and Independent
Reviewers of New England Award for Best New Play.

He is currently writing a feature film for Netflix and has TV shows in development at Showtime,
BBC America, and NBC/Universal. He has previously developed at HBO, Sundance TV, and
Fox 21 Television.

Zayd earned his MFA from NYU and was a Lila Acheson Wallace Fellow at Juilliard. He is currently
Chair of the Radio/TV/Film Department and Director of the MFA in Writing for the Screen + Stage
at Northwestern University. He is a proud member of the Dramatists Guild and the WGAe.

Zayd Dohrn was born underground and raised in New York City. His plays include The Profane
(Playwrights Horizons), Outside People (Vineyard Theatre/Naked Angels), Want (Steppenwolf
First Look), Sick (Berkshire Theatre Festival), and Reborning (The Public/SPF).

His work has been produced and developed across the country and internationally, including at
New York Stage & Film, The O'Neill Playwrights Conference, South Coast Rep, Manhattan Theatre
Club, Theatre for One, The Orchard Project, Ars Nova, SF Playhouse, New York Theatre Workshop,
Kitchen Dog Theater, Boston Playwrights', Brazil’s Visceral Companhia, Panama's Theatre Guild of
Ancon, the BrechtBauTheater in Tübingen, Germany, and the Royal Court Theatre of London.

He won the Horton Foote American Play Prize, Lincoln Center’s Lecomte du Nouy Prize,
Theatre Masters' Visionary Playwright Award, the Kennedy Center Jean Kennedy Smith Award,
the Sky Cooper American Playwriting Prize, and the Dallas Critic's Award and Independent
Reviewers of New England Award for Best New Play.

He is currently writing a feature film for Netflix and has TV shows in development at Showtime,
BBC America, and NBC/Universal. He has previously developed at HBO, Sundance TV, and
Fox 21 Television.

Zayd earned his MFA from NYU and was a Lila Acheson Wallace Fellow at Juilliard. He is currently
Chair of the Radio/TV/Film Department and Director of the MFA in Writing for the Screen + Stage
at Northwestern University. He is a proud member of the Dramatists Guild and the WGAe.