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Reviews are in for Abe! Now available on Amazon, Apple TV and more.
Abe, a full-length feature film I co-wrote with  Jacob Kader,  and director Fernando Andrade Grostein, which premiered at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival, is now available on Amazon, Apple TV and others! Starring Noah Schnapp, Mark Margolis & Seu Jorge.
“Abe” could well be the perfect thing to be watching at home during the coronavirus shut-in. Grostein Andrade directs with energy and enthusiasm; among its strengths is that the film never talks down to its child characters or the audience. - Variety
"...an enticing dramedy that wholeheartedly celebrates the potential for multicultural cuisine to unite people from distinctly different traditions, even in the face of determined opposition." ​ - Hollywood Reporter
The blend of coming-of-age and coming-together in director Fernando Grostein Andrade’s film is a poignant one. - New York Post
The adults watching know that a dinner isn’t going to heal decades of resentment, but the film charms a tiny part of you into hoping it does something, if only for the kid’s sake. - San Francisco Chronicle
It’s a movie of heart and craft -  and you feel its open-heartedness. It’s the first movie in quite some time to make me smile. - Boston Globe
"Lameece Issaq is magnificent as Noura." - Times of San Diego
Noura at The Old Globe

​Thrilled to have recently played Noura in the West Coast premiere of Heather Raffo's Noura at the Old Globe. Directed by Johanna McKeon. 
I'm proud to be a part of Pop Culture Collaborative/Noor Theatre's Artists Advancing Cultural Change cohort, along with fellow actor/screenwriter Arian Moayed (Succession) and screenwriter/director Mike Mosallam (Breaking Fast).  We'll each be writing works that reflect issues in contemporary American culture, through our own unique Middle Eastern lenses. Read the interview I did with Pop Culture's Executive Director, Bridgit Antoinette Evans.
I had the pleasure of narrating the amazing Cory Doctorow's Unauthorized Bread, "a tale of immigration, the toxicity of economic and technological stratification, and the young and downtrodden fighting against all odds to survive and prosper.” Purchase here!
My play Food and Fadwa was recently published in the anthology Contemporary Plays by Women of Color, 2nd Edition.