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Ocean Mediums - Solo Short Film                                                            Arizona State University

Pride and Prejudice - Elizabeth Bennet       Recasting the Movies & Community Cooperative

Minute Decision - Maira, Director, Writer                                  Playbill Virtual Theatre Festival

“So what is it going to be? A yes or a no?” Maira and Imran have 10 minutes to decide whether or not they would like to get married. While the clock is ticking, they figure out what questions are the most important to ask in order to make this critical life decision. Minute Decision explores with hilarity and poignance what it means to be a life partner.
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Rabt - Actor, Co-Director, Deviser                                                          Arizona State University

Rabt (‘Connection’ in Urdu) is a devised theatre show that invites the audience to question and experience connection. It’s a dreamscape. It’s ethereal. The show reveals and conceals. But at the center of it all, the show asks the question: How, why, and when do we feel connected to ourselves, to others, and to God/Higher Reality?

Beasts of Burden - Dea (Medea)                                                                               SITI Company 

SITI Company's Small Lives Big Dreams, Going Going Gone, The Medium, and Room are reimagined for the contemporary world by a new generation of artists. A collage of re-staged, adapted, and newly created work from and inspired by SITI Company creations. My group in particular worked on Beasts of Burden, in which four Greek Tragedy heroes are manifested as artists of color in various stages of homelessness on the NYC subway. 

Medea in Me - Medea                                                                                  Small Dance Collective

Taking the myth of Medea and the interviews of 25 women as our lens, we all played iterations of Medea. Each woman (including us the performers) was asked what she loved about being a woman, when she felt powerful, when she felt powerless, and how she constructively moved through negative emotions. ​

Romeo and Juliet - Ensemble                                                 Southwest Shakespeare Company 

A Spark                                                                                                           Campus Movie Festival 

Romeo and Juliet - Montague                                                                         Shakespeare Performance Troupe

Hijabi Monologues - Director, Ensemble                          Muslim Students Association, Bryn Mawr College

Henry IV - Falstaff                                                      Shakespeare Performance Troupe, Bryn Mawr College                                                                               

The Women - Ensemble                                               Shakespeare Performance Troupe, Bryn Mawr College 

Comedy of Errors - Luciana                                        Shakespeare Performance Troupe, Bryn Mawr College

Love's Labours Lost - Princess                                   Shakespeare Performance Troupe, Bryn Mawr College

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