Zachariah Ezer

Zachariah Ezer

Zachariah Ezer is a Brooklyn-based dramatist. His work is chiefly concerned with identity and the myriad challenges that its assertion presents in the modern world. Onstage, his goal is to represent the struggles of all marginalized people with nuance and dignity. Selected plays include "Time to A Phantom" (Fade to Black Festival, DC Black Theatre Festival, Best Play at the Woodside Players of Queens...
Zachariah Ezer is a Brooklyn-based dramatist. His work is chiefly concerned with identity and the myriad challenges that its assertion presents in the modern world. Onstage, his goal is to represent the struggles of all marginalized people with nuance and dignity. Selected plays include "Time to A Phantom" (Fade to Black Festival, DC Black Theatre Festival, Best Play at the Woodside Players of Queens Summer Play Festival), "Black Prometheus" (Ruthless Nightingale's Nightingale Songs Festival, BUFU EYEDREAM Residency), and "patience chaos ego bliss" (Merde). Zachariah is a member of The Tank’s writers group--The LIT Council--, an alumnus of Ars Nova's Emerging Leaders Group, and a graduate of Wesleyan University, where he was awarded Honors in General Scholarship and the Olin Fellowship for his thesis play, “Aporia!” Zachariah is also a Letter of Marque Ensemble Playwright Lab Finalist, an EST Marathon of One-Act Plays Semi-Finalist, and a BRIClab Semi-Finalist.

Plays

  • Time to A Phantom by Zachariah Ezer
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    2
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy + 4 more
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    Keyword: ghost, Jamaican + 8 more
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy, drama, horror, political, tragedy
    Keyword: ghost, Jamaican, Caribbean, duppy, hauntology, gentrification, blues, crackle, Mark Fisher, Robert Johnson
    Kyle's apartment is haunted, so he calls his super.
  • Black Prometheus by Zachariah Ezer
    Cast: 
    4
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy + 5 more
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    Keyword: Mass Incarceration, Competitive Scrabble + 7 more
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy, experimental, political, satire, science fiction, tragedy
    Keyword: Mass Incarceration, Competitive Scrabble, Fungibility, White nationalism, american race relations, mixed race relationships, AAVE, stereotypes, fake butt
    "Black Prometheus" is five vignettes about black fungibility in America. In each, a particular Black
    Prometheus brings fire to the world and has their liver torn apart for it. This repeats ad infinitum.
    Until it doesn't.
  • The Sprinkler, or Why I Hate James Baldwin by Zachariah Ezer
    Cast: 
    6–10
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    Genre: dark comedy, drama + 2 more
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    Keyword: James Baldwin, emo + 8 more
    Genre: dark comedy, drama, movement/physical, romantic comedy
    Keyword: James Baldwin, emo, cuckold, interracial gay relationships, molestation, fighting, threesome, sprinkler, Asian immigrants, black
    "The Sprinkler, or Why I Hate James Baldwin" is a coming-of-age story about two boys, one Black and one Asian, who learn to let go of themselves and grab onto each other against the sweaty backdrop of their last Texas summer before college.

Recommended by Zachariah Ezer

  • Generation (Laz)Y by Ashley Lauren Rogers
    15 May. 2019
    “ A dizzying, Ritalin-fueled satire that takes careful aim at our current age of precarity without sacrificing an ounce of heart. Read this play today, before you get too old to remember what the struggle was like. ”