Zachariah Ezer is a playwright and dramaturg who animates theoretical quandaries through theatrical forms. His work has been developed and/or produced by American Conservatory Theater, American Lore Theater, BUFU, Charging Moose Media, City Theatre, The Civilians, The DC Black Theatre Festival, Dragon Productions Theatre Company, The Echo Theater Collective, The Echo Theater Company, The Fade to Black Play Festival, Fault Line Theatre, The Fire This Time Festival, Hi-ARTS, Iowa State University, The KCACTF Region 6 Festival, The Lark, Liberation Theatre Company, Merde, Manhattan Theatre Club/The Sloan Foundation, The National Black Theatre, The New Cosmopolitans, New York Stage and Film, The Playwrights Center, Playwrights Horizons, The Prelude Festival, The Rude Mechanicals, Ruthless...
Zachariah Ezer is a playwright and dramaturg who animates theoretical quandaries through theatrical forms. His work has been developed and/or produced by American Conservatory Theater, American Lore Theater, BUFU, Charging Moose Media, City Theatre, The Civilians, The DC Black Theatre Festival, Dragon Productions Theatre Company, The Echo Theater Collective, The Echo Theater Company, The Fade to Black Play Festival, Fault Line Theatre, The Fire This Time Festival, Hi-ARTS, Iowa State University, The KCACTF Region 6 Festival, The Lark, Liberation Theatre Company, Merde, Manhattan Theatre Club/The Sloan Foundation, The National Black Theatre, The New Cosmopolitans, New York Stage and Film, The Playwrights Center, Playwrights Horizons, The Prelude Festival, The Rude Mechanicals, Ruthless Nightingale, The Secret Theatre, The Starfruit Project, The Tank, Theater J, Theater Masters, The University of Texas at Austin, Wesleyan University, The Woodside Players of Queens, and The Workshop Theater. It has been published by Concord Theatricals/Samuel French, Smith & Kraus, American Blues Theater, New World Theatre, some scripts literary magazine, and Fleas on the Dog. It has been performed in New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, Washington (state & DC), Houston, Austin, Dallas, Miami, Abilene, Ames, on PBS, and online.
Awards: The Dramatist Guild Foundation's Catalyst Fellowship, The University of Texas' James A. Michener Fellowship, Manhattan Theatre Club's Sloan Commission, The Playwrights Center's Core Apprenticeship, Theater J's Expanding the Canon Commission, Kumu Kahua Theatre's Hawai'i Prize, Hi-ARTS' Critical Breaks Residency, Echo Theater Company's National Young Playwright in Residence, Town Stages' Sokoloff Arts Creative Fellowship, Best Play at The Woodside Players of Queens Summer Play Festival, BUFU's EYEDREAM Residency, and Wesleyan University's Olin Fellowship.
MFA: The University of Texas at Austin. BA: Wesleyan University.
Zachariah is also a dramaturg (who has worked with The National Black Theatre, Breaking the Binary, Keen Company, The Workshop Theater, and FoolsFury, among others), an essayist (published by Gizmodo/io9, HuffPost, The University of Texas' E3W, among others), and a performer in alternative rock band Harper's Landing.