Sharifa Yasmin

Sharifa Yasmin

Sharifa Yasmin (she/her) is a trans Arab-American director, actor, playwright and intimacy coordinator. She has completed directing fellowships with The Drama League, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Manhattan Theatre Club, Geva Theatre, and was a Eugene O’Neill national directing fellow. Yasmin’s playwriting focuses on the intersection of Queer and Arab identities. Her plays have been produced with the Bay Area...
Sharifa Yasmin (she/her) is a trans Arab-American director, actor, playwright and intimacy coordinator. She has completed directing fellowships with The Drama League, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Manhattan Theatre Club, Geva Theatre, and was a Eugene O’Neill national directing fellow. Yasmin’s playwriting focuses on the intersection of Queer and Arab identities. Her plays have been produced with the Bay Area Playwrights Festival, Uprising Theatre, Amphibian Stage, Trans Theatre Fest, Women’s Theatre Festival, taught at DePaul, Susquehanna, and Kansas Universities, published in Overheard, a collection of monologues by and for TNB2S+ artist and The Methuen Drama Book of Trans Plays Her play Close to Home was distinguished by the American Theatre Wing at the annual Antoinette Gala and was recently included on the 2023 Kilroy’s list. Yasmin was also honored as the inaugural recipient of the SCDF Barbara Whitman Award in 2021 for her work in directing. She currently serves as a member of The Drama League's Directors Council, and is completing her MFA in Directing with Brown/Trinity Rep.

Plays

  • Close to Home by Sharifa Yasmin
    Recommendations: 6
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    3
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    Genre: comedy, drama
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    Keyword: Transgender, queer + 7 more
    Genre: comedy, drama
    Keyword: Transgender, queer, Muslim, Islam, American South, gay, abandonment, found family, nature
    Three southerners explore whether the second chances they are desperately seeking might be found with one another. Witty and resilient teenage trans femme Zara, rough-edged builder Colt, and protective Muslim immigrant Kaysar are each on their own journeys through landscapes of hope, survival, trauma, and the persistent call of joy. When their paths intertwine, new possibilities emerge for what the trio might...
    Three southerners explore whether the second chances they are desperately seeking might be found with one another. Witty and resilient teenage trans femme Zara, rough-edged builder Colt, and protective Muslim immigrant Kaysar are each on their own journeys through landscapes of hope, survival, trauma, and the persistent call of joy. When their paths intertwine, new possibilities emerge for what the trio might mean to each other in this fresh, deeply felt comedic drama about belonging.
  • Bone by Bone by Sharifa Yasmin
    Recommendations: 1
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    4
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    Genre: drama
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    Keyword: trans, trans women + 7 more
    Genre: drama
    Keyword: trans, trans women, Depression, adult depression, Sex, BDSM, abuse/attempted suicide (none depicted), contemplation of suicide, coping with death and grief
    Visions of another couple who lived within an abandoned attic’s walls intertwine with Chris and Muna’s secrets, until Fayrouz and Yasir find old life reflected in the attic’s new inhabitants. Histories collide, spirits take hold, and the attic forms its own space in time somewhere between what was and what is in this examination of sex, shame, and the cost of being okay.
  • Lilith’s Tears by Sharifa Yasmin
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    5
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    Genre: drama, fable/folktale + 1 more
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    Keyword: Transgender, queer + 8 more
    Genre: drama, fable/folktale, faith-based
    Keyword: Transgender, queer, Muslim, Islam, gay, Arab, abuse of women, content warning: sexual assault, gender queer, gender fluid
    At humanity’s creation, five beings roam the desert. Adam, the first man. Hawwa, the first woman. Jibreel, the first angel. Iblis, the first devil. And Lilith… the first mistake. They have all been tasked with God’s will, but they struggle to determine how much value their own can hold. What follows is a collision of faith and filth in this queer exploration of the first story known to man, begging the question...
    At humanity’s creation, five beings roam the desert. Adam, the first man. Hawwa, the first woman. Jibreel, the first angel. Iblis, the first devil. And Lilith… the first mistake. They have all been tasked with God’s will, but they struggle to determine how much value their own can hold. What follows is a collision of faith and filth in this queer exploration of the first story known to man, begging the question: what is the difference between sacrilege, sin, and humanity?
  • The Devils Between Us by Sharifa Yasmin
    Recommendations: 11
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    4
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    Genre: drama
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    Keyword: Transgender, queer + 4 more
    Genre: drama
    Keyword: Transgender, queer, Muslim, Islam, American South, gay
    In a small town in the boonies of South Carolina, a closeted mechanic named George is trying to figure out how to keep his late father's business running, only to be faced with a ghost from his youth. A Muslim woman, who he knew as his boyhood lover Latif, has returned as Latifa to take care of her estranged fathers funeral. Forced to confront devils both have been avoiding, they find that their only way...
    In a small town in the boonies of South Carolina, a closeted mechanic named George is trying to figure out how to keep his late father's business running, only to be faced with a ghost from his youth. A Muslim woman, who he knew as his boyhood lover Latif, has returned as Latifa to take care of her estranged fathers funeral. Forced to confront devils both have been avoiding, they find that their only way out of the past, is through each other.
  • Pick Me Girl by Sharifa Yasmin
    Recommendations: 1
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    Genre: drama
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    Keyword: trans woman, trans + 1 more
    Genre: drama
    Keyword: trans woman, trans, greys anatomy
    Amina has only two minutes to tell the man she loves EXACTLY how she feels before she never sees him again. Good luck and godspeed.