Featuring: Zayd Ayers Dohrn

Zayd Ayers Dohrn is an award-winning playwright and screenwriter, and the creator of the narrative podcast Mother Country Radicals, which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival where it won the award for “Best Audio Storytelling.” Zayd’s plays have premiered off-Broadway, across the country, and internationally and are published by Concord and Dramatists Play Service. Other honors include a Gold Medal from the New York Festival Radio Awards, the Horton Foote New American Play Prize, the Edgerton Foundation New Play Award, the Kennedy Center’s Jean Kennedy Smith Award, the Sky Cooper American Playwriting Prize, Theatre Master’s Visionary Playwright Award, and Lincoln Center’s Lecomte du Nouy Prize. Zayd is currently a Professor at Northwestern University and Director of the MFA in Writing for the Screen + Stage. www.zayddohrn.com