His work has been produced and developed across the country and internationally, including at New York Stage & Film, The O'Neill Playwrights Conference, South Coast Rep, Manhattan Theatre Club, Theatre for One, The Orchard Project, Ars Nova, SF Playhouse, New York Theatre Workshop, Kitchen Dog Theater, Boston Playwrights', Brazil’s Visceral Companhia, Panama's Theatre Guild of Ancon, the BrechtBau Theater in Tübingen, Germany, and the Royal Court Theatre of London.
He won the Horton Foote American Play Prize, Lincoln Center’s Lecomte du Nouy Prize, Theatre Masters' Visionary Playwright Award, the Kennedy Center Jean Kennedy Smith Award, the Sky Cooper American Playwriting Prize, and the Dallas Critic's Award and Independent Reviewers of New England Award for Best New Play.
He is currently writing feature films for Netflix and FilmNation and has developed TV series at HBO, Showtime, eOne, and BBC America.
Zayd earned his MFA from NYU and was a Lila Acheson Wallace Fellow at Juilliard. He is currently Professor and Chair of the Radio/TV/Film Department and Director of the MFA in Writing for the Screen + Stage at Northwestern University. He is a proud member of the Dramatists Guild and the WGAe.
His work has been produced and developed across the country and internationally, including at New York Stage & Film, The O'Neill Playwrights Conference, South Coast Rep, Manhattan Theatre Club, Theatre for One, The Orchard Project, Ars Nova, SF Playhouse, New York Theatre Workshop, Kitchen Dog Theater, Boston Playwrights', Brazil’s Visceral Companhia, Panama's Theatre Guild of Ancon, the BrechtBau Theater in Tübingen, Germany, and the Royal Court Theatre of London.
He won the Horton Foote American Play Prize, Lincoln Center’s Lecomte du Nouy Prize, Theatre Masters' Visionary Playwright Award, the Kennedy Center Jean Kennedy Smith Award, the Sky Cooper American Playwriting Prize, and the Dallas Critic's Award and Independent Reviewers of New England Award for Best New Play.
He is currently writing feature films for Netflix and FilmNation and has developed TV series at HBO, Showtime, eOne, and BBC America.
Zayd earned his MFA from NYU and was a Lila Acheson Wallace Fellow at Juilliard. He is currently Professor and Chair of the Radio/TV/Film Department and Director of the MFA in Writing for the Screen + Stage at Northwestern University. He is a proud member of the Dramatists Guild and the WGAe.