Perspectives:
A Multicutltureal Play Reading Series
Perspectives: A Multicultural Play Reading Series is an official program of Reno Little Theater. Perspectives seeks to present readings of thoughtful plays that explore culturally relevant themes and give voice to diverse stories. The Perspectives Play Reading Series productions are free with donations accepted. Donations will support the playwright, artists, and Reno Little Theater.
September
American Fast
by Kareem Fahmy
directed by Abraham Vasquez
Event postponed
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Free event
Donations accepted at the door.
Synopsis:
A star high school basketball player faces the most important tournament for her school and possibly the beginning of a promising professional career, but the dates coinciding with Ramadan makes it challenging for a person who already questions her faith, involving also her relationship with her mother, boyfriend, and everyone -and everything- in the way to her success.
About the Playwright
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Kareem has directed and developed plays at theatres nationwide, including MCC, The Atlantic, The New Group, Ensemble Studio Theatre, New Dramatists, The Civilians, Writers Theatre, Cincinnati Playhouse, Geva Theatre, Pioneer Theatre, The Magic, Contemporary American Theatre Festival, Berkeley Rep, and more. He is a New York Theatre Workshop Usual Suspect.
His plays, which include Fountains of Youth, Dodi & Diana, American Fast, A Distinct Society,The Triumphant, Pareidolia, The In-Between, and an adaptation of the novel The Yacoubian Building, have been produced at Colt Coeur, TheatreWorks Silicon Valley, Pioneer Theatre, Writers Theatre, City Theatre, Artists Repertory Theatre, InterAct Theatre, Capital Stage, Constellation Stage, Noor Theatre, Target Margin Theatre, and the Human Race Theatre Company (forthcoming).
Kareem has received fellowships from MacDowell, Yaddo, Sundance Theatre Lab, the Stratford Festival of Canada, New Harmony Project, Hermitage Artists Retreat, Banff Playwrights Lab, Oregon Shakespeare Festival (Phil Killian Directing Fellow),The Old Globe (Classical Directing Fellow), Eugene O’Neill Theatre Center (National Directors Fellow), Second Stage (Van Lier Directing Fellow), Soho Rep (Writer/Director Lab), Lincoln Center (Directors Lab), The New Museum (Artist-in-Residence), and New York Theater Workshop (Emerging Artist Fellow). He is a NYSCA/NYFA Playwriting Fellow.
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He's been a finalist for the Princess Grace award, the O'Neill National Playwrights Conference, the National Showcase of New Plays, is a two-time winner of the Capital Rep New Play Award, and received the Joanne Woodward/Paul Newman Playwriting Award for American Fast. His work has been developed at Atlantic Theater Company, Denver Center, Northlight Theatre, New York Stage & Film, Citadel Theatre, and more.
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As a screenwriter, he was in the inaugural cohort of Warner Media's Access Writers Program. His TV pilots have been finalists for the episodic labs at Sundance, Orchard Project, and Austin Film Festival.
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MFA, Theatre Directing from Columbia University.
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Kareem lives in New York City with his husband, acclaimed fiction writer John McManus, and their dog Kip.
