Zayd Dohrn

Zayd Dohrn was born underground and raised in New York City. His plays include The Profane (Playwrights Horizons), Outside People (The Vineyard Theatre/Naked Angels), Want (Steppenwolf First Look), Sick (Berkshire Theatre Festival), and Reborning (The Public/SPF). He is the recipient of 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. He attended Brown University, received his MFA from NYU, and was an American Playwriting Fellow at Juilliard. He is currently Director of the MFA in Writing for the Screen + Stage at Northwestern University.

Zayd Dohrn was born underground and raised in New York City. His plays include The Profane (Playwrights Horizons), Outside People (The Vineyard Theatre/Naked Angels), Want (Steppenwolf First Look), Sick (Berkshire Theatre Festival), and Reborning (The Public/SPF). He is the recipient of 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. He attended Brown University, received his MFA from NYU, and was an American Playwriting Fellow at Juilliard. He is currently Director of the MFA in Writing for the Screen + Stage at Northwestern University.

Scripts

Sick

by Zayd Dohrn

2
Cast Size
5
Genre
dark comedy,
drama,
mystery/thriller,
satire,
science fiction

A college professor brings a student home to meet his dysfunctional family - a home so obsessed with cleanliness that the real dirt lurks around every corner and behind every sentence. Toying with the phobias of the modern age, this dark comic drama plays upon our fears, both real and imagined.

A college professor brings a student home to meet his dysfunctional family - a home so obsessed with cleanliness that the real dirt lurks around every corner and behind every sentence. Toying with the phobias of the modern age, this dark comic drama plays upon our fears, both real and imagined.

Reborning

by Zayd Dohrn

Cast Size
3
Genre
dark comedy,
drama,
mystery/thriller

Art and life become disturbingly interchangeable when a sculptor of realistic baby dolls meets a woman desperate to recreate her past. This dark comedy takes an unsettling look at motherhood, latex, and the power of creation.

Art and life become disturbingly interchangeable when a sculptor of realistic baby dolls meets a woman desperate to recreate her past. This dark comedy takes an unsettling look at motherhood, latex, and the power of creation.

Outside People

by Zayd Dohrn

Cast Size
4
Genre
comedy,
dark comedy,
drama

In modern day Beijing, a young American guy falls for a Chinese girl and then struggles to understand where she's coming from. A play about language, culture shock, and trying to make connections across borders.

In modern day Beijing, a young American guy falls for a Chinese girl and then struggles to understand where she's coming from. A play about language, culture shock, and trying to make connections across borders.

Long Way Go Down

by Zayd Dohrn

Cast Size
4
Genre
drama

A young Mexican couple is trapped at a way station when they can't pay off their debts to the American coyotes who smuggled them across the border.

A young Mexican couple is trapped at a way station when they can't pay off their debts to the American coyotes who smuggled them across the border.

Muckrakers

by Zayd Dohrn

Cast Size
2
Genre
dark comedy,
drama

A young female activist brings an older man - a famous political hacker/journalist - home to her Brooklyn apartment to spend the night. But as they start to expose each other's secrets, personal and political desires collide, testing the limits of privacy in the modern world.

A young female activist brings an older man - a famous political hacker/journalist - home to her Brooklyn apartment to spend the night. But as they start to expose each other's secrets, personal and political desires collide, testing the limits of privacy in the modern world.