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: Member of the Clubbed Thumb 2024-2025 Early-Career Writers’ Group.
Recently: I’m Repeating Myself at the Brick, directed by Carsen Joenk, produced by The Omnivores and RHONDA.
Upcoming: Developing #’s at the 2025 Great Plains Theatre Commons and Where Is Miss Stone? with Clubbed Thumb.
Chad’s work has also been supported by Fresh Ground Pepper, HB Studio, Playhouse on Park, the Quickening Room, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, and Theater Masters.
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, 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