Free. Registration Requested. At this event author & playwright Betty Shamieh will discuss the body of her work and work in progress with New York Stage & Film's Artistic Director, Ian Belknap. Betty Shamieh is the author of sixteen plays. Malvolio, an irreverent comedy and sequel to Twelfth Night, had its world premiere at the Classical Theatre of Harlem as part of their annual Uptown Shakespeare in the Park at the Richard Rodgers Amphitheatre in July 2023 (co-directed by Ian Belknap and Ty Jones). Malvolio was selected as a New York Times Critics Pick and nominated for ten AUDELCO Awards, including Best Play. Her other off-Broadway premieres include The Black Eyed (New York Theatre Workshop, Director: Sam Gold) and Roar (The New Group, Director: Marion McClinton). Roar was selected as a New York Times Critics Pick and is currently being taught at universities throughout the United States. Shamieh was named a UNESCO Young Artist for Intercultural Dialogue and awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for Drama and Performance Art. Her European productions in translation are Again and Against (Playhouse Theater, Sweden), The Black Eyed (Fournos Theatre, Greece), and Territories (European Union Capital of Culture Festival). Shamieh wrote and co-starred in her play of monologues, Chocolate in Heat (Director: Sam Gold), in two sold-out off-off-Broadway runs and over twenty university theatres. As Soon As Impossible was developed with Jamie Farr and commissioned by Second Stage through the Time Warner Commissioning Program. The Machine (Director: Marisa Tomei) was produced by Naked Angels at the Duke Theatre in 2007. She began performing in work-in-progress presentations of The Alter-Ego of an Arab-American Assimilationist (a performance art-lecture) at colleges in 2014. Princeton University’s Institute for Advanced Studies presented the world premiere of a suite of arias from Territories, an opera based on her play. Fit for a Queen had world premiere at the Classical Theatre of Harlem in October 2016 (Director: Tamilla Woodard). In 2017, the New York premiere of her immersive murder mystery The Strangest (Director: May Adrales) was selected as one of the season’s “most promising live events” in the New York Times Spring Arts Preview article, “32 Reasons to Get Out & Get Off the Couch.” Shamieh’s theatre work has been the subject of features in the New York Times, Time Out, American Theatre magazine, Theater Bay Area, the Brooklyn Rail, San Francisco Chronicle, Svenska Dagbladet, Teaterstockholm, der Standard, Aramco Magazine, Kathimeiri, and the International Herald Tribune among others. A cartoon of Roar appeared in the New Yorker’s “Goings on about Town” section. Her debut novel, Too Soon, was published this January by Avid Reader Press, an imprint of Simon & Schuster. A February 2025 Indie Next List pick, Too Soon has been named People Magazine's Book of the Week, the  must-read book of 2025  by the San Francisco Chronicle and a  great book to start of a great year  in Oprah Daily. Too Soon was also featured as NPR's Book of the Day and on All Things Considered. Ian Belknap is a former Artistic Director of Tony Award-winning theatre The Acting Company (TAC). Described by The New York Times as producing with  curatorial inspiration,” Belknap has directed, produced, or commissioned a wide range of dramatic literature from new plays by Marcus Gardley, Rebecca Gilman, Nambi E. Kelley, Lisa Peterson, and Betty Shamieh to reinterpretations of William Shakespeare (15 productions), Sean O’Casey, and John Steinbeck. Belknap’s directorial and producing work has been seen from coast to coast in 800 US cities and 48 states, extensively off-Broadway and at leading resident theatres nationwide, including 59E59 Theaters, Arizona Theatre Company, Boise Contemporary Theatre, Classical Theatre of Harlem, Everyman Theatre, The Guthrie, Hudson Valley Shakespeare, New York Theatre Workshop, New Jersey Shakespeare Theatre, New Victory, Pearl Theatre, Philadelphia Theatre Company, Resident Ensemble Players, and Theatre for a New Audience, among others. In recent years, he has also worked in television and film, developing content for major studios and networks. In addition, Ian has extensive experience building partnerships with academic communities, working with 28 universities and colleges in 17 states. Ian has directed at The Juilliard School and has an ongoing relationship with Grad Acting at New York University. Raised in Fort Wayne, Indiana, Ian lives in New York City with his wife, Lauren, and their daughter, Thea. 
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