Nicholas Michael Bashour

Nicholas Michael Bashour

Nicholas Michael Bashour (he/him) is a DC-based Syrian-American actor, director and playwright. He was born and raised in Syria and moved to the suburbs of Detroit in 1999. After graduating from Wayne State University with degrees in journalism and biology, he relocated to Washington, DC in 2009. Nicholas is also a graduate of Georgetown University's Master of Science in Foreign Service program and a 2012-13 Fulbright-Schuman fellow.

Plays

  • Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House by Nicholas Michael Bashour
    Cast: 
    7
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    Genre: adaptation, drama + 4 more
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    Keyword: Henrik Ibsen, Ibsen + 6 more
    Genre: adaptation, drama, melodrama, period, radio drama, translation
    Keyword: Henrik Ibsen, Ibsen, husband and wife, feminism, first wave feminism, marriage and divorce, marriage, family
    A new adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's iconic play A Doll's House. Nora Helmer is a typical upper middle-class housewife living an exquisitely divine life, as she would say. But there's much more below the surface than she's willing to let on! When an old friend shows up unexpectedly on Christmas Eve, it sets off a chain of events that, over the course of three days, changes Nora's life forever.
  • Suha vs. Gods of the Underworld by Nicholas Michael Bashour
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    3
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    Genre: dark comedy, drama + 1 more
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    Keyword: apologies, forgiveness + 8 more
    Genre: dark comedy, drama, fantasy
    Keyword: apologies, forgiveness, gods and mortals, Gods and Goddesses, Mesopotamian mythology, Mesopotamia, underworld, mythology, Sumerian mythology, motherhood
    A play about apologies and forgiveness. Set in the present, Suha, a grieving mother, travels with Inanna to the underworld to ask Ereshkigal to give her son back to her. Why did Inanna agree to go back?
  • Sibling Rivalry: A Sumerian Tale of the Birth of Winter by Nicholas Michael Bashour
    Cast: 
    3
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    Genre: adventure, comedy + 4 more
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    Keyword: mythology, Sumerian mythology + 8 more
    Genre: adventure, comedy, fable/folktale, fantasy, holiday, young audiences
    Keyword: mythology, Sumerian mythology, sibling bond, rivalry between siblings, siblings, Gods and Goddesses, ancient gods, Oral Storytelling, storytelling, Mesopotamian mythology
    Three sibling storytellers share the riveting Sumerian myth of Inanna's Descent to the Underworld, an epic tale of ambition, betrayal, and sibling rivalry. As the trio of siblings tell this story, their own sibling rivalry emerges. Are the words those of the characters in the myth, or of the storytellers? Are the emotions portrayed the emotions of the characters in the myth, or the emotions of the...
    Three sibling storytellers share the riveting Sumerian myth of Inanna's Descent to the Underworld, an epic tale of ambition, betrayal, and sibling rivalry. As the trio of siblings tell this story, their own sibling rivalry emerges. Are the words those of the characters in the myth, or of the storytellers? Are the emotions portrayed the emotions of the characters in the myth, or the emotions of the storytellers about each other? Or maybe a little both?
  • M’jaddara: A Treatment for a Soul, Based on Stitched Truths by Nicholas Michael Bashour
    Cast: 
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    Genre: drama, experimental + 2 more
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    Keyword: immigration, Arab American + 8 more
    Genre: drama, experimental, radio drama, zoom
    Keyword: immigration, Arab American, Immigrants, Syrian American, family heritage, Middle Eastern Americans, motherhood, cooking, naturalization, citizenship
    What's in a name? M’jaddara is a bi-generational epic in 10 minutes about an immigrant's internal conflict between assimilation/acceptance and heritage. YOUNGEST and her son UNSEEN/UNNAMED leave their home in Syria to join YOUNGEST's husband and two adult children in the US after 2 years apart. When they arrive, UNSEEN/UNNAMED willingly leaves a piece of his heritage behind as YOUNGEST tries to keep that link alive.
  • Alexandra, Play by Nicholas Michael Bashour
    Cast: 
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    Genre: dark comedy, fantasy + 3 more
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    Keyword: digital assistants, smart technology + 8 more
    Genre: dark comedy, fantasy, mystery/thriller, satire, science fiction
    Keyword: digital assistants, smart technology, adult children living with parents, artificial consciousness, daughter-father relationship, daughter-mother relationship, motherhood, fatherhood, parenthood, adult children
    Aya is staying with single-parent Bobbie during a pandemic quarantine (not necessarily COVID-19, but also not not COVID-19). When Aya accidentally presses the right combination of buttons on the smart assistant device Alexandra (wink wink), she discovers that this little device can do a little bit more than she realized.