Yasmine Rana
Born in New Orleans, Louisiana, Yasmine is a playwright, drama therapist, and educator whose plays have been developed and produced in the United States and abroad. She is a founding member and the resident playwright at Nora's Playhouse in New York. Yasmine has collaborated with theaters and festivals including the Berkshire Festival of Women Writers, La MaMa E.T.C., Theater for the New City’s Lower East Side Festival of the Arts, Epic Theatre Festival at the Irondale Center in Brooklyn, Washington and Lee University’s Theatre in the Academe Symposium, Romania’s Fest Art, The Looking Glass Theatre, Johns Hopkins University Theatre, Brooklyn College’s GI60 Festival, Playwrights Theatre of New Jersey, Birmingham Repertory Theatre (U.K), Second Stage Theatre’s DestiNation America Festival, The Austin Woman’s Film, Television, and Theater Festival, The Mae West Fest in Seattle, Pulse Ensemble Theatre, 12 Miles West Theatre, The Jewel Box Theatre in Los Angeles, and the San Diego Human Rights Festival. Her plays have been published in journals and anthologies including 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. Yasmine’s plays have been translated and published in Romania. Seagull Books' In Performance Series has published The War Zone is My Bed and Other Plays, a collection of four of Yasmine's plays.
Fellowships 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. As a drama therapist, Yasmine has worked with refugees in Bosnia, The Republic of Georgia, and Switzerland where she implemented an arts and education program for Bosnian youth. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts and Master of Fine Arts degrees from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. Additional education includes a Master’s degree in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages, with clinical certificates in Creative Arts Therapies and International Trauma Studies. Yasmine’s work with the arts and traumatized populations has been presented internationally at conferences and workshops. She has contributed to textbooks and arts journals. The Weekly Telegraph in the United Kingdom published an article on Yasmine’s work with English language learning, the arts, and displaced populations. Yasmine is also a performer and has presented the solo version of The War Zone is My Bed at the Institute of Contemporary Art and The Roundhouse in London, England through the Accidental Theatre Festival.
Yasmine is absolutely thrilled to be working again with director Ken Cosby who has directed a staged reading of The Fallen at Write Act Repertory and productions of "M" and "Risk" at the Jewel Box Theatre.
The War Zone is My Bed premiered on October 20, 2007 at La MaMa Experimental Theatre in New York under the direction of George Ferencz as part of the Experiments Series.
Fellowships 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. As a drama therapist, Yasmine has worked with refugees in Bosnia, The Republic of Georgia, and Switzerland where she implemented an arts and education program for Bosnian youth. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts and Master of Fine Arts degrees from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. Additional education includes a Master’s degree in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages, with clinical certificates in Creative Arts Therapies and International Trauma Studies. Yasmine’s work with the arts and traumatized populations has been presented internationally at conferences and workshops. She has contributed to textbooks and arts journals. The Weekly Telegraph in the United Kingdom published an article on Yasmine’s work with English language learning, the arts, and displaced populations. Yasmine is also a performer and has presented the solo version of The War Zone is My Bed at the Institute of Contemporary Art and The Roundhouse in London, England through the Accidental Theatre Festival.
Yasmine is absolutely thrilled to be working again with director Ken Cosby who has directed a staged reading of The Fallen at Write Act Repertory and productions of "M" and "Risk" at the Jewel Box Theatre.
The War Zone is My Bed premiered on October 20, 2007 at La MaMa Experimental Theatre in New York under the direction of George Ferencz as part of the Experiments Series.
