Don Zolidis

Biography

Don Zolidis is a former high school and middle school theatre teacher and is currently a professor of creative writing at Ursinus College. Originally hailing from Wisconsin, Mr. Zolidis received his B.A. in English from Carleton College and an MFA in Playwriting from the Actor's Studio Program at the New School. He has received numerous honors, including the 2004 Princess Grace Award for Playwriting for White Buffalo, now published by Samuel French.

White Buffalo has also received an Edgerton Foundation New Play Award, an NEA grant, and will (finally) have its world premiere in March 2012 at the Purple Rose Theatre in Chelsea, Michigan. His newest play, Current Economic Conditions also received an Edgerton Foundation New Play Award and will open in January 2012 at The Phoenix Theatre in Indianapolis. And finally, A Bright Swarm of Beetles, his epic Soviet drama about the life of playwright/novelist Mikhail Bulgakov will open at Ursinus College in April 2012.

His plays for young people have been produced over 2,000 times in all fifty states and 25 countries and have won numerous state championships.

He lives with his wife and his two adorable boys and is hard at work on a novel.