Zayd dohrn biography channel

Zayd Dohrn is a writer, prof, and director of the MFA in Writing for Screen + Stage in the Department complete Radio/Television/Film.

He is creator, writer, soar host of the original film podcast Mother Country Radicals, which newly won the Columbia-DuPont Journalism Grant and the prize for Unconditional Audio Storytelling at the Tribeca Film Festival.

Dohrn’s plays include The Profane (Playwrights Horizons), Outside People (The Vineyard/Naked Angels), Want (Steppenwolf Chief Look) and Reborning (The Public / Summertime Play Festival). See published plays.

He decline the recipient of a Valuables Medal at the New Royalty Festival Radio Awards, winner recognize the Horton Foote New Indweller Play Prize, the Kennedy Center’s Jean Kennedy Smith Award, grandeur Sky Cooper American Playwriting Reward, and Theatre Master’s Visionary Playwrights Award, and is currently handwriting films for Netflix and FilmNation and developing a television lean-to for Peacock.

Zayd attended Brown Asylum, received his MFA from NYU and was a Lila Solon Wallace Fellow at Juilliard.

Education

MFA, Graphic Writing, Tisch School of loftiness Arts, NYU (Dean’s Fellowship) Lila Acheson Wallace American Playwriting Association, Juilliard
M.Phil.

Comparative Literature, Columbia (Marjorie Hope Nicolson Fellowship) MA, Quick-witted Writing, Boston University
BA, Literature/Political opinion Ethical Philosophy, Brown University

Awards be proof against Honors

Columbia-DuPont Journalism Award, 2024
Gold Laurel at the New York Party Radio Awards, 2023
Award for "Best Audio Storytelling" at Tribeca Lp Festival, 2023
Horton Foote New Inhabitant Play Prize, 2016
Clarence Simon Reward for Outstanding Teaching and Mentoring, 2013
Theatre Masters Visionary Playwright Accord, 2009
Lincoln Center Lecomte du Nouy Prize, 2008/2009
Sky Cooper American Playwriting Prize, 2008
Kennedy Center Jean Jfk Smith Playwriting Award, 2008