SAHEEM ALI Director

Proud immigrant from Kenya. Recent credits include Tartuffe (Playmakers Rep), Where Storms Are Born (Williamstown Theatre Festival), Henry V (NYU Tisch), Twelfth Night (The Public), Kill Move Paradise (The National Black Theatre), Diaspora (Gym at Judson), Nollywood Dreams (Cherry Lane Theatre) and Dot (Detroit Public Theatre). He has workshopped new plays at Playwrights Horizons, Atlantic Theater Company, The Playwrights Realm, MCC Theater, MTC, The Public, New York Stage & Film, P73 and The Lark. He has co-written two musicals with composer Michael Thurber: The Booty Call (Roundabout Underground Reading Series) and Goddess (O’Neill Musical Theater Conference). He is a Usual Suspect and former Directing Fellow at New York Theater Workshop, Sir John Gielgud SDC Fellow and a Shubert Fellow.