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Yasmine Beverly Rana

YASMINE BEVERLY RANA

  
Nationality:    USA
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Literary Agent:    Gurman Agency LLC  represented by Susan Gurman

Yasmine's plays have been presented in the United States and abroad, notably La MaMa E.T.C (The War Zone is My Bed premiere), New Stages Performing Arts Center in the Berkshires (Blood Sky for International Women's Month), Write Act Repertory Theatre in Los Angeles (Los Angeles premiere of The War Zone is My Bed), The Looking Glass Theatre of NY (Blood Sky and Paradise premieres), Johns Hopkins University Theatre (Returning premiere), Playwrights Theatre of New Jersey, Museum of Modern Art Warsaw, TR Warszawa, Tara Arts Theatre and New Diorama Theatre of London, Birmingham Repertory Theatre (UK). Publications include The Alabama Literary Review, The Best Women's Monologues and The Best Stage Scenes (Smith and Kraus Publishers), Blackbird, The Kenyon Review, TDR: The Drama Review, and The Contemporary European Idea. Translations include the Romanian-language volume Cinci Piese de Teatru. Seagull Books' In Performance series published The War Zone is My Bed and Other Plays in 2011. The anthology which includes Blood Sky, Returning, and Paradise was reviewed in the spring 2013 issue of Slavic and East European Journal. Awards include a Paulette Goddard Fellowship from New York University and a Walter E. Dakin Fellowship in Playwriting from the Sewanee Writers Conference at the University of the South. Yasmine was a finalist for La MaMa Experimental Theatre's inaugural Ellen Stewart Award. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts and Master of Fine Arts degrees from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. Yasmine serves as Writer in Residence at T. Schreiber Studios in New York which produced The Fallen in 2013 and will produce a revival of Blood Sky in 2014. She was selected to participate in the New Jersey Emerging Women Playwrights Project at Playwrights Theatre of New Jersey which is developing her latest play, Another Spring.

Research:    Member of the Dramatists Guild of America (as at 2015)

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below is a list of Yasmine Beverly Rana's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Blood Sky         Decent         Doves In the Trees         Extraotica         Fallen, The         M         Night of the Koala, The         Paradise         Returning         Risk         War Zone is My Bed, The
Blood Sky

Synopsis:
A wolf-like whistle is the catalyst for this journey of trauma and memory for Joley, an adult, breaking free from her past.

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Stage-read At Birmingham Repertory theatre's Altered States Series in the U.K. Developed And stage-read At Playwrights theatre of New Jersey; International Women Playwrights Conference: Athens, Greece; Estrogenius Festival: New York; John Harms Center for

1st Produced:
The Looking Glass Theatre, New York    

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Excerpts published in Smith and Kraus' Best Stage Scenes and Best Women's Stage Monologues, 1999   

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Decent

Synopsis:
the murder of a prostitute in New Orleans leads to a search for answers and decency for a surviving family member.

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New York    

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in the Alabama Literary Review,    

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Doves In the Trees

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New York    

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Extraotica

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part of Creatures of the Cabaret. This is A program of eight short plays About non-human characters (such As trolls, fairies, goblins And ghouls). the plays Are: Angels! by Mary Flanagan; One, Two, Three, Breathe by Lenore Blumenfeld; the Clock is Ticking by Nancy Gall-Clayton; Time Troll by Karin Diann Williams; English therapy by Nancy Gall-Clayton; I Confess by Charmian Creagle & Sean Doran; Extraotica by Yasmine Beverly Rana; And Behind Closed Doors by Letitia Sweitzer.
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1st Produced:
Looking Glass Theatre, NY     2007

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short play One Act

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Fallen, The

Synopsis:
the Fallen gives breath to the haunting stories of the Bosnian War. Spanning twenty years, the play reveals the lingering repercussions of the conflict while ricocheting from the rooftops of Sarajevo to the balconies of Turin to the art galleries of London. the production coincides with the recent Bosnian War crimes trials.
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1st Produced:
Jerry H. Labowitz Theatre For The Performing Arts At The NYu Gallatin School Of Individualized Study, 1 Washington Place, N     18 Jul 2012

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M

Synopsis:
It's New Years Eve and Beatrice and fiance Peter visit a psychic who tells Beatrice that her soulmate's first initial is . . . M? Follow Beatrice as she embarks on a whirlwind journey in search of "M".

Notes:
Produced At the Turnip Festival, the Samuel French Short Play Festival, the Looking Glass theatre, Pulse Ensemble theatre (All in New York); 12 Miles West theater Company (New Jersey);Drama West (California)

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New York    

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Excerpts published in U.S. 1 Worksheets,    

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Night of the Koala, The

Synopsis:
Koalas or people? That is the question for James, a high powered CEO whose entire life-philosophy is re-examined when he is visited by an Artsy therapist who wants him to fund her project.

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Paradise

Synopsis:
the levees break in New Orleans forcing illegal Indian immigrants Meena and Raj to decide between daring to hope for life or coming to terms with death
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part of Winter 2007 Writers/Directors Forum, A festival of workshop productions of plays featuring new writers And directors

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Looking Glass Theatre

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Returning

Synopsis:
From a detention centre for asylum seekers, to an art gallery in Sarajevo, the external and internal conflicts brought about by war are examined through the intertwined lives of those living it.

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LaMama International theatre Company's Playreading Series (New York); HERE, New York

1st Produced:
Johns Hopkins University Theatre     2006

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1st Published:
Excerpts published in U.S. 1 Worksheets,    

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Risk

Synopsis:
the value of human life engulfs a bedroom as Mina pleads with her partner to take the risk and say yes to life, rather than embark on a journey of destruction.

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New York    

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War Zone is My Bed, The

Synopsis:
A journalist's motives are questioned by his lover, a native of the war zone

Notes:
Produced by Nora's Playhouse in New York; the Looking Glass theatre in New York

1st Produced:
Nora's Playhouse, New York    

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1st Published:
Forthcoming publication in Blackbird,    

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Genre:
two act Play/Drama

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