# Heather Raffo
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heather raffo (born in Michigan, United States) is a Lucille Lortel Award-winning Assyrian American playwright and actress, best known for her leading role in the one-woman play 9 Parts of Desire.
== Biography ==
=== Early life ===
Her father is Assyrian and a civil engineer and her mother is American, who are both of Christian faith. Heather is a Roman Catholic who grew up in Okemos, Michigan.
In Conversation with Natasha Sinha
Recorded on March 15, 2021
Dramaturgs have long played a critical role in developing and examining new works of theater, but the job is often difficult to describe to those unfamiliar with the show development process. Natasha Sinha, producer, dramaturg, and now Playwrights Horizons' Associate A...
Noura (Old Globe)
SEEN: Oct 15, 2019
Noura
By Heather Raffo
Directed by Johanna McKeon
A riveting West Coast premiere loosely inspired by Ibsen’s A Doll’s House from acclaimed playwright (and Old Globe/USD Shiley M.F.A. Program graduate) Heather Raffo. Noura and her husband are Chaldean Christian refugees f...
Heather Raffo, Iraqi Women in Diaspora
Playwright and performer Heather Raffo gathers a multi-generational, multi-religious, multi-national group of women to discuss the themes and ideas of her play NOURA. Participating in the conversation were author and sociologist Zahra Ali, architect Hiba Hadid, author and dentist Cynthia Kaplan S...
Noura by Heather Raffo
In this episode, Pauline Homsi Vinson interviews Heather Raffo. Raffo is an award winning Iraqi-American playwright and performer. She discusses her various works such as 9 Parts of Desire, Fallujah: The First Opera about the Iraq War, and Noura. Raffo discusses the impact of her work on American...
New film 'Nine Parts' explores lives of Iraqi women after U.S. invasion
After the U.S. invaded Iraq 20 years ago, Iraqi American playwright and actor Heather Raffo created and starred in an acclaimed play "Nine Parts of Desire" about the lives of Iraqi women. She's returned to the subject on film and through a distinctly American lens, setting a new version in Michig...
The Migration Of A Play with Actor and Playwright Heather Raffo
In this episode Amber talks with actor and playwright Heather Raffo about her process developing a new theatrical platform about migration in her play TOMORROW WILL BE SUNDAY. They talk about how Heather uses her acting tools for writing, and loves to create plays that challenge her like her "own...
Telling Stories of a Distant Homeland — with Heather Raffo
“I didn't feel I had a torn identity at all, I felt a part of the fabric of this nation. I felt very Michigan,” says Heather Raffo, an Iraqi-American playwright, filmmaker and actress. But then, she tells New Lines magazine’s Rasha Al Aqeedi, the outbreak of the Gulf War in the early 1990s forc...
Mike Mosallam - Producer
Mike Mosallam is a producer, director, writer for theatre, film and television.
Through his production company, Mike Mosallam Productions, he and his team produced short films: Breaking Fast and Brothers, both written and directed by Mike, along with the short film "Ubuntu," a co-production wit...
In The Mix
Listen to an excerpt featuring Phillip Blanchett, Robert Karimi and Phyllis Fast
http://www.dmaeroberts.com/media/InTheMixpiece.mp3
Mixed Race is the fastest growing minority in America. The arts have opened up new ideas through colorblind casting, fusion in music, visual art, and literature. J...
Nine Parts: A One-Woman Film About the Lives and Loves of Iraqi Women
Nearly 20 years ago Heather Raffo’s play, 9 Parts of Desire, premiered to widespread acclaim in London and Off-Broadway, later becoming a global theatrical phenomenon. Now, Raffo adapts her multi-award winning solo play about Iraqi women for the screen and for our current time. With a radical ret...
