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ZAYD DOHRN |
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Nationality: USA Email: Click here to contact Website: Click here to visit |
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Literary Agent: The Gersh Agency, NY |
Zayd Dohrn was born and raised in New York City. His full-length plays include Outside People (The Vineyard Theatre/Naked Angels), Want (Steppenwolf First Look), Reborning (The Public/SPF), and Sick (Berkshire Theatre Festival). His work has also been produced and developed at Playwrights Horizons, Theatre for One, MTC, Ars Nova, Kitchen Dog, South Coast Rep, Boston Playwrights, New York Theatre Workshop, the Alliance, Alchemy Theatre, and the Royal Court Theatre of London, among others. He is currently writing screenplays for The American Film Company, Voltage Pictures, and Vox3 Films, and developing a drama series at HBO. He earned his MFA from NYU and was a Lila Acheson Wallace Fellow at Juilliard, where he twice received Lincoln Centers Lecomte du Nouy Prize. He teaches playwriting and screenwriting at Northwestern University.
Plays by Zayd Dohrn
Haymarket | ||
| 1st Produced: | Beckett Theater (Theater Row), NY | 2005 | ||||
Company: | The Alchemy Theatre Company of Manhattan, Inc. | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #71841 | |||
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Synopsis: | Based on a true story about a terrorist bomb attack in Chicago in 1886 | |||||
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Long Way Go Down | ||
| 1st Produced: | Kitchen Dog Theatre, Dallas, Texas | 28 May 2010 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #115363 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Synopsis: | A Mexican couple are held prisoner when they cannot pay the people smugglers | |||||
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Magic Forest Farm | ||
| 1st Produced: | Lieberman Theatre, San Francisco | 2009 | ||||
Company: | Marin Theatre Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #66658 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | n/a | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | A young woman tries to piece together her past spent in a commune in the California woods | |||||
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Missed Connections | ||
| 1st Produced: | Ars Nova, NY | 26 Jan 2010 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #87324 | |||
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Genre: | short play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | Part of a program of short plays and killer live music inspired by ads for the ones that got away. Featuring plays by Annie Baker, Bekah Brunstetter, Dylan Dawson, Kristoffer Diaz, Zayd Dohrn, Tasha Gordon-Solmon, Amy Herzog, Samuel D. Hunter, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, Steven Levenson, Matthew Lopez, Janine Nabers, and Samuel Brett Williams, all of the play titles are taken directly from actual Craigslist Missed Connections ads. | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Outside People | ||
| 1st Produced: | Vineyard Theatre | 10 Jan 2012 | ||||
Company: | Naked Angels, New York | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #126566 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | Black comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | Set in modern-day Beijing, Outside People, Zayd Dohrn's darkly comic new play is the story of a young American man, Malcolm (Dellapina) who falls in love with a young Chinese woman, Xiao Mei. But as his eyes open to the subtle social, political and economic forces that inform their relationship, he must confront his complex place in this foreign culture, the friendship that brought him there, and his own deepest fears and desires. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Permanent Whole Life | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2006 | |||||
Company: | Alchemy Theatre Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #56617 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy Drama, 90 min Comedy | |||||
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Notes: | VENUE 16: Classic Stage Company | |||||
Synopsis: | A life insurance investigator seduces a young widow fresh from the funeral home. Florida is no place for the living in this savage comedy about sex, death, and the relationships that outlast us | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Reborning | ||
| 1st Produced: | Joseph Papp Public Theatre, New York | 07 Jul 2009 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #115364 | |||
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Genre: | Black comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | A sculptor of dolls and a woman desperate to recreate her past | |||||
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Sex-ed | ||
| 1st Produced: | Village Community School, New York | 25 Sep 2008 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #134932 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | Short play | |||||
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Synopsis: | The maths teacher and the condom | |||||
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Shameless | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #115365 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | n/a | |||||
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Synopsis: | Two New York talent agents on the look out for something new | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Sick | ||
| 1st Produced: | New Jersey Repertory Company, NY | 2009 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #94968 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 3 | ||
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Synopsis: | about about one family's attempts to keep out the sickness of the world by isolating themselves in a house where all the windows are covered with plastic, where air purifiers hum constantly, and where visitors are unwelcome | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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