DGPD INSTRUCTOR

Zakiyyah Alexander

Their DGPD Teaching History includes Finding The Road Map To Your Play and Fundamentals of Writing a TV Pilot.

Zakiyyah Alexander is an award-winning writer, occasional actor, and a native New Yorker raised in Queens and Brooklyn. 

Her plays include: YOU ARE HERE, the musical: GIRL SHAKES LOOSE (Penumbra Theater, O’Neill Musical Conference), 10 THINGS TO DO BEFORE I DIE (Second Stage Uptown), THE ETYMOLOGY OF BIRD (Central Park Summerstage, Hip Hop Theater Festival, Providence Black Repertory Theatre), BLURRING SHINE (Market Theater, Johannesburg, NY International Fringe Festival), SWEET MALADIES (Brava Arts Center, Rucker Theatre, Bay Area Playwrights Festival), and her newest play, HOW TO RAISE A FREEMAN workshopped at Playwright’s Horizons and Center Theater Group in Los Angeles. She is currently commissioned by Oregon Shakespeare Festival.  

A graduate of the Yale School of Drama, and co-founder of, The Kilroys – an organization focused on parity in American theater. 

As a television writer/producer her credits include: season two of RUSSIAN DOLL (upcoming), THE HUNTERS, GREY’S ANATOMY and 24: LEGACY.