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Betty Shamieh is a playwright, author, screenwriter, and actress. As a playwright, her off-Broadway premieres are The Black Eyed (New York Theatre Workshop), The Machine (Naked Angels), 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. Her recent European productions in translation include Again and Against (Playhouse Teater, Stockholm), The Black Eyed (Theater Fournos, Athens), and Territories (co-production of the Landes-Theatre and the 2009 European Union Capital of Culture Festival). She was the 2009 artist-in-residence at Het Zuidelijk Toneel of Holland, where her play, Free Radicals, is slated for production in Dutch translation in 2011. Shamieh performed in her play of monologues Chocolate in Heat in three sold-out and extended off-off-Broadway runs and over twenty university theatres. Her new comedy, As Soon as Impossible, was commissioned as part of the Time Warner Commissioning program. In 2007, she was the NEA/TCG playwright-in-residence at the Magic Theatre, where The Black Eyed and Territories had their world premieres. She received an Honorable Mention for her screenplay Anonymous from the Third Annual Writers Network Competition. Her essays have appeared in The American Theatre Reader, The Brooklyn Rail, Counterpunch, and Mizna. 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. She was named as a Playwriting Fellow at Harvard University's Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies in 2006 and is currently serving on the playwriting advisory board for the New York Foundation for the Arts. Shamieh recently completed her first novel. She is a member of New Dramatists, New Group Affiliated Artist, and a New York Theatre Workshop Usual Suspect. www.bettyshamieh.com

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