ZAYD DOHRN’s 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). Awards include 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 has written pilots for HBO, Showtime, and Sundance TV, and is currently developing a feature for Netflix and a TV series for BBC America. He is the Chair of the Radio/TV/Film Department and Director for the MFA in Writing for the Screen + Stage at Northwestern University.