Betty Shamieh
Resident Playwright
2010 -- 2017Betty Shamieh’s off-Broadway premieres are The Black Eyed (New York Theatre Workshop), and Roar (The New Group), which was selected as a New York Times Critics’ Pick and is currently being taught at universities throughout the United States. She has been a resident playwright at New Dramatists since 2010. Her recent European productions in translation include Again and Against (Playhouse Teater, Stockholm), The Black Eyed (Fournos Theatre, Athens), and Territories (co-production of the Landes-Theatre and the 2009 European Union Capital of Culture Festival). Her play, Free Radicals, is slated for production in Dutch translation at Het Zuidelijk Toneel in 2012. Shamieh performed in her play of monologues, Chocolate in Heat, in three sold-out off-off-Broadway runs and over twenty university theatres. The Machine was produced by Naked Angels in 2007. A graduate of Harvard College and the Yale School of Drama, she was a recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts grant and selected as a Clifton Visiting Artist at Harvard in 2004. Shamieh was named as a Playwriting Fellow at Harvard University's Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies in 2006 and is currently an artist-in-residence at HERE Arts Center. She was selected as a 2011 UNESCO Young Artist for Intercultural Dialogue. www.bettyshamieh.com
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