Zachariah Ezer

Zachariah Ezer

Zachariah Ezer is a Brooklyn-based playwright whose work animates theoretical quandaries through dramaturgical forms. Selected plays include The Sprinkler, Blaxploitation, Time to A Phantom, and Black Prometheus. His work has been produced or developed by The National Black Theatre, The Tank, American Lore Theater, The Lark, The Fade to Black Play Festival, The DC Black Theatre Festival, BUFU, The Workshop...
Zachariah Ezer is a Brooklyn-based playwright whose work animates theoretical quandaries through dramaturgical forms. Selected plays include The Sprinkler, Blaxploitation, Time to A Phantom, and Black Prometheus. His work has been produced or developed by The National Black Theatre, The Tank, American Lore Theater, The Lark, The Fade to Black Play Festival, The DC Black Theatre Festival, BUFU, The Workshop Theater, Southern California Queer Theater Collective, Ruthless Nightingale, The Woodside Players of Queens, Merde, The Secret Theatre, and Wesleyan University. Awards: Town Stages' 2020 Sokoloff Arts Creative Fellowship, Best Play at The Woodside Players of Queens 2019 Summer Play Festival, BUFU's 2018 EYEDREAM Residency, and Wesleyan University's 2015 Olin Fellowship. Zachariah is an Honors graduate of Wesleyan University and a member of The Tank’s LIT Council & The Dramatists Guild.

Plays

  • The Sprinkler by Zachariah Ezer
    Cast: 
    6–11
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy + 3 more
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    Keyword: adolescence coming of age, anime + 7 more
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy, drama, movement/physical, romantic comedy
    Keyword: adolescence coming of age, anime, Asian American and African American relations, black, Bisexual men, pornography, Burma, Myanmar. pop punk, threesome
    Lamar hasn't been home in days; Alex can't stop getting into fights by the reservoir, and Kate is seeing an unlicensed Christian therapist. The trio only has a few months of high school left before they go to college Up North, but if their conservative, suburban town doesn’t destroy their futures, the games of control they play with each other just might.
  • Blaxploitation by Zachariah Ezer
    Cast: 
    4–14
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    Genre: adventure, comedy + 6 more
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    Keyword: blaxploitation, zombies + 8 more
    Genre: adventure, comedy, drama, fantasy, parody/spoof, political, satire, science fiction
    Keyword: blaxploitation, zombies, genie, time travel, aikido, afro-futurism, afro-pessimism, Afro-Surrealism, Non-Binary, midnight movie
    At a midnight movie screening, director Roxie Spectacular exhibits their cult classic, "A Time to Die," in which a martial arts master and a genie try to use time travel to prevent slavery and stop a zombie apocalypse before a special agent from the future can stop them.
  • Time to A Phantom by Zachariah Ezer
    Recommendations: 2
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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
    Stuck in a negative experience machine, a pair of Black test subjects do everything they can to theorize a way out of being killed over and over again.