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Selling Kabul
''Selling Kabul'' is a 2019 American play by Sylvia Khoury. Set in 2013, the play centers a former interpreter for the U.S. Military during the War in Afghanistan forced to choose between witnessing the birth of his child or staying in hiding as a target of the Taliban. The play was a finalist for the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Production history Williamstown Theatre Festival (2019) ''Selling Kabul'' had its world premiere on July 10, 2019 on the Nikos Stage at the Williamstown Theatre Festival, produced in association with Playwrights Horizons. The play won the 2018 L. Arnold Weissberger New Play Award administered by the Williamstown Theatre Festival, which grants winners a reading at the Williastown Theatre Festival. This production was directed by Tyne Rafaeli, and featured Omid Abtahi, May Calamawy, Marjan Neshat, and Babak Tafti. Playwrights Horizons (2021) ''Selling Kabul'' made its Off-Broadway and New York debut on November 17, 2021 through Playwrights Ho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sylvia Khoury
Sylvia Khoury is an American writer and playwright. She was born in New York and has French and Lebanese ancestry. She was educated at Columbia University (BA) and The New School for Drama (MFA), and in 2021 gained an MD from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Khoury was the recipient of the 2021 Whiting Award for drama. Her play ''Selling Kabul'' is a 2022 Pulitzer Prize The 2022 Pulitzer Prizes were awarded by the Pulitzer Prize Board for work during the 2021 calendar year on May 9, 2022. The awards highlighted coverage of major stories in the U.S. that year, including the January 6 United States Capitol atta ... finalist for drama. Her other plays include ''Power Strip'', ''Against the Hillside'' and ''The Place Women Go''. References External linksOfficial website {{DEFAULTSORT:Khoury, Sylvia Year of birth missing (living people) Living people 21st-century American women writers American women dramatists and playwrights Columbia College (New York) a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
May Calamawy
May El Calamawy ( ar, مي القلماوي, , born October 28, 1986) is an Egyptian-Palestinian actress who has worked and resided in the United States since 2015. She is known for her roles in the American television series ''Ramy'' as Dena Hassan, and ''Moon Knight'' as Layla El-Faouly. Early life Calamawy was born on October 28, 1986, in Bahrain to an Egyptian father who worked as a banker, and a Palestinian-Jordanian mother. She has an older brother. Raised mostly in Bahrain, she also spent six years living between Doha, Qatar, and Houston, Texas, before she was twelve years old. Calamawy speaks English and Arabic. She was inspired to become an actress after watching the 1992 film ''Death Becomes Her'' when she was a child. Calamawy completed high school in Bahrain, and at 17 she moved to Boston, Massachusetts, to study industrial design, because her father wanted her to. She then lived in Dubai for five years before moving back to the United States to pursue an act ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2019 Plays
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The ''Chicago Sun-Times'' is a daily newspaper published in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Since 2022, it is the flagship paper of Chicago Public Media, and has the second largest circulation among Chicago newspapers, after the ''Chicago Tribune''. The modern paper grew out of the 1948 merger of the ''Chicago Sun'' and the '' Chicago Daily Times''. Journalists at the paper have received eight Pulitzer prizes, mostly in the 1970s; one recipient was film critic Roger Ebert (1975), who worked at the paper from 1967 until his death in 2013. Long owned by the Marshall Field family, since the 1980s ownership of the paper has changed hands numerous times, including twice in the late 2010s. History The ''Chicago Sun-Times'' claims to be the oldest continuously published daily newspaper in the city. That claim is based on the 1844 founding of the '' Chicago Daily Journal'', which was also the first newspaper to publish the rumor, now believed false, that a cow owned by Catheri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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''The New York Times'' (''the Times'', ''NYT'', or the Gray Lady) is a daily newspaper based in New York City with a worldwide readership reported in 2020 to comprise a declining 840,000 paid print subscribers, and a growing 6 million paid digital subscribers. It also is a producer of popular podcasts such as '' The Daily''. Founded in 1851 by Henry Jarvis Raymond and George Jones, it was initially published by Raymond, Jones & Company. The ''Times'' has won 132 Pulitzer Prizes, the most of any newspaper, and has long been regarded as a national "newspaper of record". For print it is ranked 18th in the world by circulation and 3rd in the U.S. The paper is owned by the New York Times Company, which is publicly traded. It has been governed by the Sulzberger family since 1896, through a dual-class share structure after its shares became publicly traded. A. G. Sulzberger, the paper's publisher and the company's chairman, is the fifth generation of the family to head the p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hamid Dehghani
Hamid Dehghani is an Iranian director, playwright, and actor. His work spans theatre productions in both Iran and the United States, with a focus on storytelling that explores complex themes of identity, language, and human experiences. Dehghani has directed several notable plays, including English (play) by Sanaz Toossi and Selling Kabul by Sylvia Khoury. His career has also included acting roles and playwriting, with some of his works receiving awards in Iranian theatre festivals. He has collaborated with prominent theatres such as the Goodman Theatre, Guthrie Theater, and Northlight Theatre, contributing to both international and regional theatre landscapes. Early life and education Hamid Dehghani was born in Iran, where he developed an early passion for theatre and storytelling. He pursued a bachelor's degree in theatre from Tehran University of Art, followed by a master's degree in Theatre Directing from the same institution. His academic journey culminated in earning an M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Francis Benhamou
Francis Benhamou is an American actress. She received Lucille Lortel Award and Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play for her performance in the 2022 off-Broadway play ''Prayer for the French Republic''. Life and career Benhamou was born in Montevideo, Uruguay, and grew up in Miami. From her mother's side, she is Ashkenazi, Polish and Russian, and from her father's side is North African Sephardim. She graduated from the New York University. She began her career starring in short films and had minor role in the 2004 drama film, ''Imaginary Heroes''. In 2007, Benhamou played the leading role alongside Zoe Lister-Jones in the independent drama film, ''Arranged''. She later appeared in films ''Neal Cassady'' (2007), ''Breaking Upwards'' (2009), ''My Last Day Without You'' (2011), ''Big Words'' (2013), ''Listen Up Philip'' (2014), ''Women Who Kill'' (2016), and '' The Rainbow Experiment'' (2018). On television, Benhamou made guest starring appearances on ''Inside ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Babak Tafti
Babak Tafti is an Iranian-American actor best known for the role of Emil Michael on '' Super Pumped,'' Chris in ''The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed'', Bradford Luke in '' Billions'', and Eduard Asgarov in '' Succession''. Career Tafti graduated from the Yale School of Drama. He appeared as Saeed in the 2012 production of the J.T. Rogers play ''Blood and Gifts'' at La Jolla Playhouse. The following year, he reprised his role as Khadi Asmann in the Off-Broadway debut of Rajiv Joseph's play ''The North Pool''; he had previously performed the role at the Barrington Stage Company. He later reprised his role as Rodney in the commercial run of Bess Wohls plaSmall Mouth Soundsat the Signature Theatre Company; he had previously performed the role at Ars Nova (theater). The following year, he performed in the world premiere of ''The Profane'' by Zayd Dohrn. He had a "breakout performance" as Cassio in the Shakespeare in the Park (New York City) 2018 production in Othe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Omid Abtahi
Omid Abtahi ( fa, امید ابطحی) is an Iranian-American actor. noorfilmfestival.com Accessed 2016-1-28 He is best known for his roles as Salim in Starz Original '' American Gods'', Doctor Pershing in '' The Mandalorian'' on Disney+, Saleem Ulman in ''NCIS'' on Paramount+, and Homes in the fourth installment of ''The Hunger Games'' film series, '' The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2''. Early life and education Abtahi was born in Tehran, Iran. At the age of 5 he moved to Paris with his family and later they moved to the United States, finally moving to Irvine, Orange County, California when he was 10. Abtahi graduated from University High School in Irvine and attended California State University, Fullerton. He began studying advertising, then picked up a second major in theater and graduated in 2002. ocregister.com Accessed 2016-1-29 Career Before acting on television, Abtahi performed on stage in many theatrical productions including ''Fraulein Else'' at the Berkele ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Afghanistan
Afghanistan, officially the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan,; prs, امارت اسلامی افغانستان is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central Asia and South Asia. Referred to as the Heart of Asia, it is bordered by Pakistan to the east and south, Iran to the west, Turkmenistan to the northwest, Uzbekistan to the north, Tajikistan to the northeast, and China to the northeast and east. Occupying of land, the country is predominantly mountainous with plains in the north and the southwest, which are separated by the Hindu Kush mountain range. , its population is 40.2 million (officially estimated to be 32.9 million), composed mostly of ethnic Pashtuns, Tajiks, Hazaras, and Uzbeks. Kabul is the country's largest city and serves as its capital. Human habitation in Afghanistan dates back to the Middle Paleolithic era, and the country's Geostrategy, strategic location along the historic Silk Road has led it to being described, pict ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tyne Rafaeli
Tyne Rafaeli is a Drama Desk-nominated director whose credits include ''Power Strip'', ''Selling Kabul ''Selling Kabul'' is a 2019 American play by Sylvia Khoury. Set in 2013, the play centers a former interpreter for the U.S. Military during the War in Afghanistan forced to choose between witnessing the birth of his child or staying in hiding ...'', ''Usual Girls'', ''I Was Most Alive With You'' and ''In a Word.'' References {{DEFAULTSORT:Rafaeli, Tyne Living people American theatre directors American women theatre directors Year of birth missing (living people) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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