French Boy Cigarettes
A kidnapping-gone-awry leaves two Egyptian-American immigrants with a boy in their basement, the threat of deportation, and God’s judgement looming over their heads. (2W, 2M)
Winner of the 2024 Goldberg Play Prize, Reading in November 2024, dir. Jack Serio
Semi-Finalist for the 2024 Eugene O’Neill National Playwright’s Conference
Workshop in April 2023, dir. Giovanna Sardelli, featuring Mona Mansour as “Najla”
For You, The Same
Two twenty-somethings come together the night before their interview with USCIS to get on the same page about their fraudulent marriage, and try to cover up all the cracks that are already showing before the night begins. (1W, 1M)
Finalist for the 2025 Blue Ink Playwriting Award
Reading as part of the 2023 Goldberg Series at NYU Tisch School of the Arts, dir. Carla Troconis and featuring Jojo Jones as “Evelyn”
Gidou
In a house full of ghosts, aging Arab revolutionaries feud over the facts and fictions of their relationship; the battlefield is their granddaughter, Sami. (3W, 2M)
Finalist for the 2023 Eugene O’Neill National Playwright’s Conference
Excerpts performed in collaboration with the NYU Tisch Grad Acting program
The Death Card
A Virgo has decided it’s time to end things with her Taurus boyfriend, so she enlists some help from the spirits. Taurus begins to worry she can actually read his mind. The breakup is predestined. (1M, 1W)
Winner of the 2022 Take Ten Theater Master’s Short Play Festival