Discipline: Theatre – playwriting

Zakiyyah Alexander

Discipline: Theatre – playwriting
Region: New York, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 2015

Zakiyyah Alexander worked on several new plays, including How to raise a Black Man in a time of American warfare. She is a television writer and playwright.

Studios

Phi Beta

Zakiyyah Alexander worked in the Phi Beta studio.

Funded by the Phi Beta Fraternity, a national professional fraternity of music and speech founded in 1912, Phi Beta Studio was built between 1929–1931 of granite quarried on the MacDowell grounds. The small studio is a simple in design, but displays a pleasing combination of materials with its granite walls and colorful slate roofing. Inside is…

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