ZAKIYYAH ALEXANDER

Zakiyyah Alexander is a playwright, performer, and educator. She is the author of After the Show: A Play in Mask, Pralaya, Blurring Shine, (900), Elected, The Etymology of Bird, and SICK? Her work has been produced/developed at: Summer Play Festival (SPF) at Theatre Row, Greenwich Street Theatre, NY International Fringe Festival, La MaMa E.T.C., Pace Theatre, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Creative Place Theater, and The Producer’s Club. Readings include: Women’s Project, Actors Express, New Dramatists, The Vineyard Theatre, New Professional Theatre, a commission with GAle GAtes et al, among others. Current commissions: Mt. Holyoke. Awards and Fellowships: Dramatists Guild, Theodore Ward Prize, Jackson Phelan Award, Fellowship at New Dramatists, Drama League New Directors/New Works, New Professional Theatre Playwriting Award, Young Playwrights Inc. Her work is included in the latest edition of New Monologues for Women by Women. She is a resident member of New Dramatists, the Women’s Project Playwrights Lab, alum of EST’s Youngblood, and former resident at New Perspectives Theater. Education: M.F.A Yale School of Drama.