Zachariah Ezer is a playwright & an Assistant Professor of Performing Arts at WashU in St. Louis whose work animates theoretical quandaries through theatrical forms.
He is a Dramatists Guild Foundation Catalyst Fellow, winner of Kumu Kahua Theatre’s Hawai’i Prize, and a member of The Liberation Theatre Company’s Writing Residency. He is an alumnus of UT Austin’s James A. Michener Fellowship, Playwrights Horizon’s New Works Lab, Theater J’s Expanding the Canon Commission, The Civilians’ R&D Group, The Playwrights Center’s Core Apprenticeship, A.C.T.’s Make-A-Thing Commission, and Hi-ARTS’ Critical Breaks Residency. His work has been published by Concord Theatricals/Samuel French, and he is currently under commission from MTC/The Sloan Foundation.
Zachariah is also a dramaturg (who has worked with The National Black Theatre, Breaking the Binary, and WP Theater), an essayist (published by the UT’s E3W, Gizmodo/io9, & HuffPost), and a performer (in alt-rock band Harper’s Landing).
