This two-day event is co-sponsored by the Critical Writing Program and the Middle East Center. RSVP to wh@writing.upenn.edu to reserve a spot.
Bina Sharif has produced over twenty plays in the United States, Europe, and Pakistan, including, most recently, Afghan Woman, a response to the Iraq war. She is the author of the highly-acclaimed play My Ancestor's House, published in the anthology Contemporary Plays by Women of Color. Her new dramatic monologue about the assassination of Benazir Bhutto debuted at the famous Nomad Gallery in Islamabad. Her new work in progress, The Missing Scenes, was read at the Theater for the New City in April.
As an actress she has performed in both her own plays and in works by others, and has worked with Fernando Arabal, Maria Irene Fornes, and Robert Patrick. She is the recipient of grants from Franklin Furnace, the NYSCA, and Theater for The New City, which produced seventeen of her plays. Her visual works examine the turmoil and hope of living as a woman in Islam, an artist in America, and a Pakistani American in the post 9/11 world. Sharif lives and works in New York. Ms. Sharif has an M.D. from Pakistan and has a Masters degree in Public Health from Johns Hopkins University.
