https://dupont.org/ This podcast series tells the dramatic story of the 'The Weathermen,' a violent, radical movement of the ‘60s and ‘70s, as told by the aging militants to the podcast producer, Zayd Ayers Dohrn, who himself is the son of the groups’ leaders. CREDITS Host/Writer: Zayd Ayers Dohrn Head of Development: Sarah Geismer Executive Producers: Zayd Ayers Dohrn, Misha Euceph, Sarah Geismer, Jon Favreau, Lyra Smith, Alison Falzetta Senior Producer: Ariana Lee Producer: Stephanie Cohn Executive Editor: Arwen Nicks Historical Consultant: Thai Jones Development and Operations Coordinator: Rachael Garcia Production: Tamika Adams Senior Engineer: Valentino Rivera Composer: Andy Clausen Head of Audio Content: Tim Clarke Head of Platform Marketing: Lindsay Grant Podcast Marketing Lead: Brian Swarth

REVOLUTION(S) BY ZAYD AYERS DOHRN MUSIC AND LYRICS BY TOM MORELLO DIRECTED BY STEVE H. BROADNAX III Soldier and aspiring musician Hampton Weems comes home from Afghanistan to find the South Side of Chicago is also occupied territory – and he’s accidentally joined the resistance. Featuring songs by Tom Morello (Rage Against the Machine, Nightwatchman, Street Sweeper Social Club), Revolution(s) is a punk/metal/hip-hop musical about a young artist finding his voice, why violence is as American as cherry pie, and how young radicals, across generations, are still motivated by love. Revolution(s) is a Goodman Theatre commission. https://www.goodmantheatre.org/show/revolutions/

Writers are facing the most comprehensive assault on compensation and working conditions that they have seen in a generation. The studios have taken advantage of the transition to streaming to underpay entertainment industry workers, including writers in every area of work. Like too many working people across our economy, as corporate profits grow, writers are just not keeping up. Read more about the strike here.

As the nation tuned in to the January 6 hearings, my favorite podcast of the year, Mother Country Radicals, premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival. Mother Country Radicals is hosted by Zayd Ayers Dohrn, a playwright and the son of Bernardine Dohrn and Bill Ayers—leaders of the Weather Underground. Over the summer, Zayd told Chicago magazine that one of the reasons he decided to tell the story now “was that it was the Trump administration when [he] started, and [he] was thinking a lot about how young activists tried to resist out-of-control law-and-order authoritarian governments.” This podcast has all the ingredients: a narrator with personal stakes recounting his own childhood on the run from the FBI; unprecedented accounts inside notorious jailbreaks; youth culture against the backdrop of a country in tumult, not too dissimilar from our own.     In the early 1970s, Bernardine Dohrn was on the FBI’s 10-most-wanted list because of her actions as part of the Weather Underground, a radical group that used violent measures to protest the Vietnam War and the country’s treatment of Black people, among other social issues. She and the other “Weathermen,” as they called themselves, believed that as white people, it was their job to stop these injustices, even if it meant resorting to illegal, dangerous [...]

https://tribecafilm.com/news/tribeca-festival-announces-2022-jury-awards We are excited to reveal the 2022 Jury Award winners of the 21st Annual Tribeca Festival, presented by OKX! Many notable films that have won Tribeca Festival Jury Awards have gone on to win the Academy Awards including: Jesus Camp, Let the Right One In and Taxi to the Dark Side just to name a few. AUDIO STORYTELLING (sponsored by Audible) Best Audio Storytelling in Nonfiction: Mother Country Radicals. Jury Statement: We’ve chosen our winner for giving us an intimate look into a chapter in history many listeners may think they know. The seamless story editing, sound design, and use of archive audio along with the host’s willingness to take us along in his investigation of his parents’ radicalization make this a compelling, educational, and insightful listen. It also sheds a new angle on the current era of inequality in American society and what it means to take action for what you believe in. The winner is “Mother Country Radicals."

Mother Country Radicals chosen as an Official Selection at the 2022 Tribeca Film Festival in the "Audio Storytelling" category. See details here.

Seven New Plays Slated To Appear In 16th Annual New Stages Festival At Goodman Theatre by BWW News Desk Sep. 5, 2019   Tweet Share      This fall, Goodman Theatre presents its New Stages Festival-a free annual celebration and discovery of new plays by some of the country's finest established and emerging playwrights, now in its 16th year. Audiences experience a first look at seven new works-including two fully staged developmental productions (performed in repertory) Incendiary by Dave Harris and In the Sick Bay of the Santa Maria by Rajiv Joseph. In addition, four staged readings are presented during the last weekend of the festival (November 8-10) including The Garden by Charlayne Woodard; Engines and Instruments of Flight: A Fantasia in Three Acts by Calamity West; The Humanities by Zayd Dohrn; and Fannie by Cheryl L. West-plus a special work-in-progress showing, (the) FAIR created by Sandra Delgado and Sojourn Theatre Company. The 16th annual New Stages Festival runs October 23 - November 10 in the 350-seat Owen Theatre; free reserved tickets will be made available to the general public on September 13; call 312.443.3800, visit GoodmanTheatre.org/NewStagesFestival or the box office (170 N. Dearborn). For more information about "Industry Professionals Weekend," visit GoodmanTheatre.org/Professionals.   "Over the past 16 years, our New Stages Festival has become a quintessential [...]

Eugene O’Neill Theater Center Announces 2019 Summer Season BY AMERICAN THEATRE EDITORS WATERFORD, CONN.: The Eugene O’Neill Theater Center has announced its summer season of plays, musicals, and other works in development. “This summer in Waterford, Conn., the O’Neill, the launchpad of the American theatre, will continue our work with exciting new musicals, plays, puppetry, and cabaret,” said executive director Preston Whiteway in a statement. “I’m delighted to welcome audiences from around the world to experience these vital new works during our 55th anniversary season. I am grateful to each of our artistic directors for their bold vision in selecting these pieces and artists that will impact the field for decades to come.” The National Playwrights Conference, led by artistic director Wendy C. Goldberg, will present eight new works (July 3-27). The plays were chosen from 1,416 plays received through the O’Neill’s open submission process. Isaac Gomez (The Way She Spoke) will join as this year’s writer-in-residence. Death of the Republic by Craig LucasThe Humanities by Zayd Dohrnit’s not a trip it’s a journey by Charly Evon SimpsonTender Age by George BrantAntigones by Anna ZieglerBlack Dick by Tearrance ChisholmUntitled F*ck M*ss S**gon Play by Kimber LeeWinter People by Laura Neill

Review: Zayd Dohrn Plumbs Muslim-American Rifts in ‘The Profane’ By LAURA COLLINS-HUGHES, APRIL 10, 2017 Oh, poor Sam. He’s traveled all this way at Thanksgiving to meet his girlfriend’s parents, and her father won’t even shake his hand. Good-looking, polite, pre-med, Sam seems eminently presentable — but not to this family. He gets zero points for being smitten with their daughter Emina. “Of all the guys you could have picked?” her sister Aisa (Francis Benhamou) says in “The Profane,” Zayd Dohrn’s approachably eloquent, frequently comic new drama at Playwrights Horizons. “You know this is Pa’s worst nightmare.” Raif (Ali Reza Farahnakian), their father, is a famous novelist who came to the United States as a student, leaving the Islam of his youth behind. Naja (the extraordinary Heather Raffo), their mother, was a dancer. Everything about this immigrant couple — their spacious Greenwich Village apartment, teeming tastefully with books and art; their accents, by now standard American — suggests comfortable assimilation into an elite stratum of secular society. These are not people who hoped that a child of theirs would fall in love with a son of conservative Muslims, yet Emina (Tala Ashe) has. Away at college, she has started to remake [...]