Zayd Ayers Dohrn is an award-winning writer of plays, screenplays, and podcasts. His work is published by W.W. Norton, Vintage UK, Concord, The New Yorker, The Guardian, and more.

His plays include Revolution(s) (The Goodman), The Profane (Playwrights Horizons), Outside People (The Vineyard/Naked Angels), Sick (National New Play Network), and Reborning (The Public/SPF).

He has written a podcast for Crooked Media, screenplays for Netflix and FilmNation, and developed television pilots at Showtime, Sundance TV, HBO, and BBC America.

He received his MFA from NYU, was a Playwriting Fellow at Juilliard, and is currently a Professor at Northwestern and Director of the MFA in Writing for the Screen + Stage.