My friend Prof. Zayd Ayers Dohrn stops by to talk about his award-winning podcast Mother Country Radicals, the true story about growing up on the run from the FBI. His parents were founding members of the 1960’s radical group The Weathermen Underground, Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn. We discuss the similarities of the 1960’s civil rights movement to the struggles of today and the racism that seems to lurk deep in the heart of man. We also talk about the time his parents broke Timothy Leary out of prison! This is an incredible conversation with a brilliant human being!
https://www.zayddohrn.com/
LISTEN TO MOTHER COUNTRY RADICALS HERE:
https://crooked.com/podcast-series/mother-country-radicals/
Zayd Dohrn is a writer, professor, and director of the MFA in Writing for Screen and Stage in the Department of Radio/Television/Film at Northwestern University.
He is creator and host of the original documentary podcast Mother Country Radicals, which won the Audio Storytelling category at the Tribeca Film Festival. Dohrn’s plays include The Profane (Playwrights Horizons), Outside People (The Vineyard/Naked Angels), Want (Steppenwolf First Look) and Reborning (The Public / Summer Play Festival). See published plays.
He is the recipient of the Horton Foote New American Play Prize, the Kennedy Center’s Jean Kennedy Smith Award, the Sky Cooper American Playwriting Prize, and Theatre Master’s Visionary Playwrights Award, and is a two-time winner of Lincoln Center’s Lecomte du Nouy Prize. He is currently writing films for Netflix and FilmNation and developing a television series for eOne. Zayd attended Brown University, received his MFA from NYU and was a Lila Acheson Wallace Fellow at Juilliard.
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