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: Developing two new plays, False Starts + Unfinished Sketches with Theresa Buchheister for the Brick 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 and Hunter College. 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 will be published by Samuel French/Concord Theatricals.
As Playwright in Residence at the Brick, Chad produces community-building programs for early career writers and directors, including 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.)
B.A. in English and a B.S. in journalism, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio. M.F.A. in playwriting, Hunter College, 2023.