I’M REPEATING MYSELF made the Staff Picks year-end list (three times!).
Read about I’M REPEATING MYSELF in The New York Times.
Read a conversation with Chad and Theresa Buchheister in The Brooklyn Rail.
Read a conversation with Chad and Kallan Dana in Culturebot.
Read a conversation with Chad, 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.
Recently: I’m Repeating Myself at the Brick, directed by Carsen Joenk, produced by The Omnivores and RHONDA. Workshops of Where Is Miss Stone? with Clubbed Thumb, and #’s at the 2025 Great Plains Theatre Commons New Play Festival.
Chad was in the Clubbed Thumb 2024-2025 Early-Career Writers’ Group, and his work has 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.)
Chad is a product of public schools and the son of two public school teachers. He is an adjunct lecturer and assistant director of the Office of the Arts at Hunter College.
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.
Photo by Emil Cohen