Zayd dohrn biography of william

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

He is creator, writer, and host of the original documentary podcast Mother Country Radicals, which recently won the Columbia-DuPont Journalism Award and the prize for Best Audio Storytelling at the Tribeca Film Festival. 

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

He is the recipient of a Gold Medal at the New York Festival Radio Awards, winner of the Horton Foote New American Play Prize, the Kennedy Center’s Jean Kennedy Smith Award, the Sky Cooper American Playwriting Prize, and Theatre Master’s Visionary Playwrights Award, and is currently writing films for Netflix and FilmNation and developing a