Middle East
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Lydia StrykDescription
A brutal account of the effect of the Iraq war and past wars on soldiers and military families. What is the legacy of war on the home front? How do we best serve our country?
Production Info
Cast: 6 total (4 female, 2 male)
Full Length Drama (about 90 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Contemporary Costumes
Betty ShamiehDescription
A short play based on the character of the Architect from the play THE BLACK EYED.
Production Info
Cast: 2 total (2 female)
Short Drama (about 30 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Naomi WallaceDescription
BETWEEN THIS BREATH AND YOU takes place after hours in the waiting room of a clinic in West Jerusalem, where a Palestinian father confronts a nurse's aide, a young Israeli woman, about the meaning of the loss of his son and the impact it had on her life.
Production Info
Cast: 3 total (1 female, 2 male)
Short Drama (about 30 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary CostumesBetty ShamiehDescription
Four Arab women from across the ages meet in the afterlife. As these characters — who include the Biblical Delilah and a secular modern Arab-American — struggle to come to terms with their lives and their choices, this shockingly funny play skewers traditional views on sex, family, and terrorism.
Production Info
Cast: 4 total (4 female)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Single Set
Period Costumes
Greg OwensDescription
Darwin and Jo Smith, and their seventeen-year-old son, Ronnie, seem to be the typical Middle American conservative family... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 5 total (2 female, 3 male)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
Tony KushnerDescription
In HOMEBODY/KABUL, Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright Tony Kushner, author of ANGELS IN AMERICA, has turned his penetrating gaze to the arena of global politics to create this suspenseful portrait of a dangerous collision between cultures... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 11 total (3 female, 8 male, Multiethnic Cast)
Full Length Drama (about 215 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Contemporary Costumes
Yussef El GuindiDescription
Two college professors have left their homeland for a country that soon devolves into a war zone. They're accustomed to lives of comfort, but it's hard to get comfortable when you're chained to a radiator... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 3 total (3 male)
Full Length Drama (about 80 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Yussef El GuindiDescription
No matter where you live, the ups and downs of married life are universal. For a middle-aged American couple traveling to Egypt on a business trip-slash-vacation, their relationship is put to the test when an old connection leads to new temptation... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 5 total (2 female, 3 male, doubling)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Contemporary Costumes
Karen SundeDescription
Set in South Lebanon, HOW HIS BRIDE CAME TO ABRAHAM is a soaring love story. When a fleeing refugee encounters a soldier wounded by a roadside bomb, irresistible Palestinian and Israeli characters clash, then ignite a passion that heals... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 2 total (1 female, 1 male, Multiethnic Cast)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Karen SundeDescription
Based on a true story, a kidnapped "cowboy" Marine serving the U N in Lebanon's maze of rival Muslims drags America into this new world as the mystery of his capture unfolds... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 7 total (1 female, 6 male)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
Allan HavisDescription
A promising Ethiopian soccer star in Israel is courted by an American sports agent. The athlete is involved with another Ethiopian who risks being deported... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 8 total (3 female, 5 male, Multiethnic Cast)
Full Length Drama (about 85 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Contemporary Costumes
Naomi WallaceDescription
In this lyrical, searing one-act, an American soldier has an unexpected encounter with two Afghan sisters who are ready to embark on a new life... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 3 total (2 female, 1 male)
Full Length Drama (about 50 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
A R GurneyDescription
O JERUSALEM centers around an American State Department official who becomes entangled in Middle Eastern politics before and after September 11, 2001... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 5 total (3 female, 2 male)
Full Length Drama (about 110 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Frank WintersDescription
Three years ago, Sarah Kennedy thought she was hired as a translator for a corporate military prison in Baghdad, only to discover that she would be acting as an interrogator instead, retrieving information from prisoners of war — by any means necessary... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 9 total (5 female, 4 male)
Full Length Drama (about 170 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Contemporary Costumes
Julie Marie MyattDescription
Combat photojournalist Matthew Milton is charged with flying from Afghanistan to pick up his sister, Lizzie, after a two-month stint in rehab for heroin addiction... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 6 total (1 female, 5 male)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes