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.