Plays
Full Length:
Off-White; Or the Arab House Party Play
Taking place in the early 2000s, Off-White; Or the Arab House Party Play follows Leila, a half white, half Arab-American teen who never felt like an outsider until she's absent from school on 9/11. As her classmates' suspicions of her grow, Leila grapples with the erratic fluctuation of the perception of her identity, so she does what any reasonable high schooler would do to resurrect their reputation - throw the house party of the century. 3M, 3F
Readings/Development:
Mondays @ 3 Reading Series - New York Theatre Workshop 2023
Winter Writers Intensive - The Workshop Theater 2021
PEA Festival - Breaking and Entering Theatre Collective 2021
Semi-Finalist:
O’Neill National Playwrights Conference 2023
American Blues Theater Blue Ink Award 2023
New Dramatists Princess Grace Award 2023
Lanford Wilson New American Play Festival 2022
Bay Area Playwrights Festival 2021
Finalist
Amphibian Stage SparkFest 2023
Dramatists Guild Foundation Fellowship 2022
The Playwrights Realm Writing Fellowship 2021
Honorable Mentions/Longlists
Distillery New Works Festival 2024
Epiphanies New Works Festival 2022
The Ancestry Dot Com Play
Samia never knew her father, and her secretive Lebanese mother is more interested in watching Wheel of Fortune than providing answers. While she’s proud of her Arab American heritage, Samia wishes she knew more about her family history — until her friend does her DNA test without her consent, making Samia confront just how much knowledge about her ancestry she can handle. 4F
Readings/Development:
Writing Fellow - The Playwrights Realm 2022-2023
INKubator Play Lab - Art House Productions 2019-2021
New Works Program - The Shelter 2021
Annual Bazaar - Arab American Association of New York 2020
Semi-Finalist:
Bay Area Playwrights Festival 2022
Premiere Play Festival 2024 (ongoing)
O’Neill National Playwrights Conference 2024
Rattlestick Theater Terrence McNally New Works Incubator 2024
Pipeline Playlab 2024
The Civilians' R&D Group 2024
Finalist:
American Blues Theater Blue Ink Award 2024
Bay Street Theatre New Works 2024
Live Arts Waterworks Festival 2024
You Should Be So Lucky
Poh Poh invites her granddaughter, Jenny, to her apartment to make dumplings for the Lunar New Year. As they prepare, the two begin to discover that changes within Chinatown aren’t leaving space for them. 2F
Readings/Development:
Incubator - Moxie Arts 2022-2023
Boiler Room Series - Keegan Theatre 2023
Summer in the Garden - 4615 Theatre Company 2023
New Work - Peacedale Global Arts 2023
Finalist:
Amphibian Stage SparkFest 2024
Downtown Urban Artists Festival 2024
Fresh Ground Pepper PlayGround PlayGroup 2024
The Newlywed Game (Formerly - Across the Aisle)
When a young couple from different backgrounds host take a big adult step and host their traditional families for Thanksgiving, everyone comes armed with food and secrets. But when they drop the bomb that they are engaged, it begs the question: how can you ever know when you’re ready to start your future? 4M, 4F
Productions
World Premiere - B Street Theatre Mainstage 2024
Readings/Development:
New Comedies Festival - B Street Theatre 2023
New City New Blood - Theater for the New City 2018
Women Playwright Series - Centenary Stage Company 2019
Plays In Progress Series - Athena Project 2021
Semi-Finalist:
Normal Ave NAPseries 2020
Finalist:
Ensemble Studio Theatre Youngblood 2021
Honorable Mention:
Epiphanies New Works Festival 2023
Gentlemen and Ladies
In this satire, a Men’s Rights Activist group meets for the first time, an unlikely new member shakes things up. 5F
Readings/Development
Under Construction 3 Play Lab - The Road Theatre 2022-2023
The Tank 2023
Peace and Quiet
In this dark comedy, a family must decide what to do with Simon, the patriarch in his 70s suffering from Alzheimer's, until his wife decides to take matters into her own hands. (Mentored by Nicky Silver 2016) 2M, 3F
Readings/Development
Midtown International Theatre Festival: Fall Official Selection/Playwright's Award - Workshop Theater 2016
Sundog Theatre 2018
Players of Utica 2021
Round The Bend Theatre 2023
Finalist:
Play-Makers Spokane Woman Are Funny 2018
Short:
Sanctuary
Based vaguely on semi true events, this ten minute play follows a pizza shop owner and a cow that stumbled into Brooklyn, who are trying to find their sanctuary. (Commissioned by American Blues Theatre 2023) 2 Players
Available to read: Ripped Festival 2023
Reflective
A ten minute play in which Tayla, a 16 year old high school student faces her insecurities, bullying, and eventual self acceptance to her own reflection. (Mentored by Daniel Goldfarb 2015) 2W
Readings/Development:
Capital Repertory Theatre's Next Act! New Play Summit 2016
Women’s Theatre Festival 2019
Selections:
Theatre Masters Festival NYU Selection 2015
WO[MAN]
In this absurdist farce, a United States Government Official and a Father show a Mother how her newborn daughter will be raised. (Mentored by Carol Rocamora 2016) 2M, 1W
Readings/Development:
Paper Kraine Productions - Kraine Theater 2017
Capital Repertory Theatre's Next Act! New Play Summit 2018
LIC One Act Play Festival - The Secret Theatre 2019
Virtual New Play Brunch - B Street Theatre 2020
?!: New Works - The Brick 2023
Thank You and Goodnight
Comedy routines in the kitchen aren’t uncommon, but when an aspiring young comic pushes her mother on to the stage, they both learn a lesson about reaching for the stars, and never giving up on their dreams. (Developed at NPTC Short Play Lab) 2W, 1M.
Readings/Development:
Short Play Lab - New Perspectives Theater Company 2019
A Shop Owner’s Dilemma
As gentrification looms over a shop owner’s restaurant, an unlikely trio attempts to save it. (Developed at Living Room Theater’s New Play Incubator) 3 Players.
Readings/Development:
Morbid Dumpling Productions - National Opera Center 2018
TV
PINNED DOWN "Pilot"
Chloe, a recent college graduate, seemingly had all it took to be successful. But when things don't pan out the way she expected it to and her career, love life, and housing situation are less than ideal, Chloe must face her self destructive behavior and Pinterest board head on in order to be a successful adult in the real world. (Mentored By Kenneth Krauss 2014.)
Finalist:
Fusion Film Festival 2016
Film
Feature:
Complimentary Colors
When an elderly painter attempts to draw his deceased wife, he enlists in the help of his daughter, who discovers that she's losing him to Alzheimer's. (Mentored by George Malko 2016)
"This is a visually imaginative work with a complex protagonist in a common, yet touching story." -Slamdance 2018
Quarterfinalist:
ScreenCraft Screenwriting Fellowship 2018
Semifinalist:
ScreenCraft Film Fund 2018
Finalist:
Fusion Film Festival 2018