Zachariah Ezer is a playwright whose work animates theoretical quandaries through theatrical forms. His plays include The Freedom Industry (Playwrights Horizons’ New Works Lab, The Playwrights Center, New York Stage & Film), Address the Body! (The University of Texas at Austin’s UTNT Festival, Kitchen Dog Theater’s New Works Festival, Echo Theater Company’s National Young Playwrights in Residence), The Single Raindrop (The Civilians’ R&D Group), Legitime (Fault Line Theatre’s Irons in the Fire), and Black Women in Tech (The Fire This Time Festival, PBS), among others.
He is a Dramatists Guild Foundation Catalyst Fellow, the winner of Kumu Kahua Theatre’s Hawai’i Prize, and is currently under commission from Theater J. He is an alumnus of The University of Texas’s James A. Michener Fellowship, The Civilians’ R&D Group, The Playwrights Center’s Core Apprenticeship, American Conservatory Theatre’s Make-A-Thing Commission, Hi-ARTS’ Critical Breaks Residency, Echo Theater Company’s National Young Playwrights in Residence, Town Stages’ Sokoloff Arts Creative Fellowship, BUFU’s EYEDREAM Residency, and Wesleyan University’s Olin Fellowship. His work has been published by Concord Theatricals/Samuel French, Smith & Kraus, American Blues Theater, and New World Theatre.
Zachariah is also a dramaturg (who has worked with The National Black Theatre, Breaking the Binary, WP Theater, Keen Company, The Workshop Theater, Merde, and foolsFURY), an essayist (published by the University of Texas’ E3W, Gizmodo/io9, HuffPost, and elsewhere), and a performer (in alternative rock band Harper's Landing).