The Dramatist Summer 2025: Dramaturgy
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Zayd Dohrn: Ten Questions
Jun 01, 2025
Ten Questions
Zayd Dohrn

What was an early, memorable theatrical experience?

Caroline, or Change by Tony Kushner and Jeanine Tesori. I saw it as a grad student, and it completely changed my idea of what a play could be. It’s just such an incredible work of craft and empathy—a classic Aristotelean tragedy, but with radical contemporary resonance (and great music). My girlfriend and I saw it so many times in the early-2000s we nearly bankrupted ourselves. And when I tried to deduct the tickets on my taxes (it’s a professional expense, and I figured I was by then (kind of) a professional playwright), the total was more than what I made in a year as a writer, and we got audited by the IRS..

 

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Zayd Dohrn
Zayd Dohrn

’s plays include The Profane (Playwrights Horizons), Outside People (The Vineyard), Sick (NNPN), Want (Steppenwolf), and Reborning (The Public/SPF). He is creator of the award-winning podcast Mother Country Radicals (Crooked Media) and a Professor and Director of the MFA in Writing for the Screen + Stage at Northwestern University.

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