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, Atlantic Theater Company, BUFU, Charging Moose Media, City Theatre, The Civilians, Creative Capital, The DC Black Theatre Festival, Dragon Productions Theatre Company, Dramatic Question Theater, The Echo Theater Collective, The Echo Theater Company, The Fade to Black Arts Festival, The Fade to Black Play Festival, Fault Line Theatre, The Fire This Time Festival, Hi-ARTS, Iowa State University, The KCACTF Region 6 Festival, La Mama, The Lark, Liberation Theatre Company, Merde, Manhattan Theatre Club/The Sloan Foundation, Nancy Manocherian's the cell theatre, The National Black Theatre...
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, Atlantic Theater Company, BUFU, Charging Moose Media, City Theatre, The Civilians, Creative Capital, The DC Black Theatre Festival, Dragon Productions Theatre Company, Dramatic Question Theater, The Echo Theater Collective, The Echo Theater Company, The Fade to Black Arts Festival, The Fade to Black Play Festival, Fault Line Theatre, The Fire This Time Festival, Hi-ARTS, Iowa State University, The KCACTF Region 6 Festival, La Mama, The Lark, Liberation Theatre Company, Merde, Manhattan Theatre Club/The Sloan Foundation, Nancy Manocherian's the cell theatre, The National Black Theatre, The New Cosmopolitans, The New Harmony Project, New York Stage and Film, The Playwrights Center, Playwrights Horizons, The Prelude Festival, Rorschach Theatre, The Rude Mechanicals, Ruthless Nightingale, The Secret Theatre, The St. Louis Shakespeare Festival, The Starfruit Project, The Tank, Theater J, Theater Masters, The University of Texas at Austin, Washington University in St. Louis, 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: Creative Capital's Inaugural State of the Arts Prize, The Dramatist Guild Foundation's Catalyst Fellowship, The University of Texas' James A. Michener Fellowship, Atlantic Theater Company's Judith Champion Launch Commission, Manhattan Theatre Club's Sloan Commission, The New Harmony Project's Writers Residency, The Playwrights Center's Core Apprenticeship, Theater J's Expanding the Canon Commission, Theater Masters' Visionary Playwright Award, 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 was featured as a Champion of Plays on the 2025 Kilroys Web and has worked with Octopus Theatricals, The National Black Theatre, Breaking the Binary, WP Theater, Keen Company, Classix, Mercury Store, The Workshop Theater, Merde, and foolsFURY), an essayist (published by the University of Texas’ E3W, Gizmodo/io9, HuffPost, Bubbleblabber, and elsewhere), and a performer (in alternative rock band Harper’s Landing).