Heather Raffo appeared in the FF BROADWAY PREMIERE OF
PALACE OF THE END
by Judith Thompson Directed by Daniella Topol starring Teri Lamm, Heather Raffo, and Rocco Sisto
Playwrights Horizon's The Peter Jay Sharp Theatre 416 West 42nd Street (212) 279-4200
"Directed with appropriate gravity by Daniella Topol, the monologues deal thoughtfully with awful subjects,
and have an undeniable punch. The final piece is especially effective: Superbly incarnated by Raffo..."
Adam Feldman - Time Out New York / Issue 665 : Jun 25–Jul 3, 2008
Friday, July 18, 8pm
An Evening With Heather Raffo:
On the Lives & Stories of
Iraqi Women
THE OPEN CENTER
83 Spring Street, Soho, NY
212.219.2527
"The female half of Iraq has come to America," declared Gloria Steinem of Heather Raffo’s highly acclaimed 9 Parts of Desire, a series of monologues of Iraqi women which ran for nine sold-out months at the Manhattan Ensemble Theater.
Join us tonight as this electrifying actress and playwright recreates some of these monologues and shares what she has learned in the process of creating what John Lahr in The New Yorker called "an example of how art can remake the world."
June 11th - July 13th, 2008
OFF BROADWAY PREMIERE OF
PALACE OF THE END
by Judith Thompson
2008 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize Winner
Playwrights Horizon's The Peter Jay Sharp Theatre
416 West 42nd Street
Featuring an AWARD-WINNING CAST:
TERI LAMM (Habitat),
HEATHER RAFFO
(Author/Performer of 9 Parts
of Desire) ROCCO SISTO (Quills)
INCENDIARY, OUTRAGEOUS,
and HAUNTING, Palace of the End is a
triptych of monologues that tell the stories
of three people forever impacted by the
wars in Iraq: "PVT. LYNNDIE", a U.S.
soldier convicted of abusing detainees at
Abu Ghraib prison; DR. DAVID KELLY,
the British weapons inspector who allegedly
committed suicide after being involved in a
government scandal, and NEHRJAS AL
SAFFARH, a leading member of the
Communist Party of Iraq who suffered
the greatest of losses during the Baathist
coup that led to Saddam Hussein's rise
to power.
Chicago - 9 Parts of Desire
starring Heather Raffo
in the original New York Production
at the Museum of Contemporary Art,
produced by Next Theater Company.
MAY 3 - 18, 2008
Museum of Contemporary Art
Museum of Contemporary Art
Roundtable Talk, Chicago, IL.
Roundtable: Political Acts: The Emerging Arab-American Theater Movement
Three of the most potent forces in Arab-American theater today, playwrights Heather Raffo, Yussef El Guindi, and Betty Shamieh - Americans of Iraqi, Egyptian, and Palestinian descent respectively - together for the first time to discuss the politics in their work, their careers as outsider artists, the ability of art to transcend cultural difference, and the political challenges of negotiating the east-west divide. Copresented with Next Theatre and Silk Road Theatre Project.
Chicago - 9 Parts of Desire
starring Heather Raffo
in the original New York Production
at the Museum of Contemporary Art,
produced by Next Theater Company.
MAY 3 - 18, 2008
Museum of Contemporary Art
Museum of Contemporary Art
Roundtable Talk, Chicago, IL.
Roundtable: Political Acts: The Emerging Arab-American Theater Movement
Three of the most potent forces in Arab-American theater today, playwrights Heather Raffo, Yussef El Guindi, and Betty Shamieh - Americans of Iraqi, Egyptian, and Palestinian descent respectively - together for the first time to discuss the politics in their work, their careers as outsider artists, the ability of art to transcend cultural difference, and the political challenges of negotiating the east-west divide. Copresented with Next Theatre and Silk Road Theatre Project.
Heather Raffo
Actor/Playwright
