Betty Shamieh

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Betty Shamieh is a Palestinian-American playwright, author, screenwriter and actor. She is a native of the San Francisco Bay Area, and is currently a mentor and professor at Marymount Manhattan College in New York City.

Shamieh is a graduate of Harvard University and the Yale School of Drama, and has authored 15 plays.

With the 2004 premiere of Roar, a drama about a Palestinian family that was honored as a New York Times Critics Pick for four consecutive weeks, she became the first Palestinian-American to have a play premiere off-Broadway.

[edit] Selected Works

• Chocolate in Heat: Growing Up Arab in America, 2003 (New York International Fringe Festival)
• Roar, 2004 (off-Broadway)
• The Black-Eyed, 2005 (Magic Theatre, San Francisco)
• Territories, 2008 (Magic Theatre, San Francisco)

[edit] References

• Profile of Betty Shamieh at the Institute for Middle East Understanding
• Betty Shamieh - Official Website
• Biography from Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University