Betty Shamieh

Betty Shamieh received a 2016 Guggenheim Fellowship for Drama and Performance Art. She was selected as the winner of The Playwrights' Center’s 2012-2013 McKnight National Residency and Commission. Her 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). 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. She was selected as a 2011 UNESCO Young Artist for Intercultural Dialogue. Her plays have been translated into seven languages. www.bettyshamieh.com

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