I’M REPEATING MYSELF is at The Brick February 27-March 15. Get tickets.
Read about I’M REPEATING MYSELF in The New York Times.
Read Chad in conversation with Theresa Buchheister in The Brooklyn Rail.
Read Chad in conversation with Kallan Dana in Culturebot.
Read Chad in conversation with Carsen Joenk and Ann Marie Dorr on The Brick’s website.
Chad Kaydo is a queer playwright from Ashtabula, Ohio, who writes intimately observed plays obsessed with friendship, mortality, and the existential questions hidden in the quotidian.
Currently: I’m Repeating Myself at the Brick (February-March 2025), directed by Carsen Joenk, produced by The Omnivores and RHONDA. Member of the Clubbed Thumb 2024-2025 Early-Career Writers’ Group.
Upcoming: Developing #’s at the 2025 Great Plains Theatre Commons and Where Is Miss Stone? with Clubbed Thumb as a finalist for the 2022 Biennial Commission.
Recently: Readings of Narrowsburg at the Quickening Room, and I Could Never at Playhouse on Park, Hunter College, and HB Studio. Sewanee Writers’ Conference, Fresh Ground Pepper BRB Retreat. Chad’s short play That Was Fun was presented at the 2023 Theater Masters Take Ten Festival and is published by Samuel French/Concord Theatricals.
As Playwright in Residence at the Brick, Chad produces and hosts Quick + Dirty, a development series for short works by new collaborators. (You should come.)
In former lives, Chad wrote for the J.Crew catalog, interviewed fashion designers for Bergdorf Goodman, reported on hundreds of parties as editor of an event magazine, and lived with two standard poodles. (See above, re: queer.)
He is a product of public schools and the son of two public school teachers.
He is one-fifth of the theater collective The Omnivores.
B.A. in English and a B.S. in journalism, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio. M.F.A. in playwriting, Hunter College, 2023.
Photo by Emil Cohen