Salma S. Zohdi is an Egyptian Dramaturg based in New York City. She is the Next Generation Fellow at The Martin E. Segal Theatre Center. She was the Communications Associate at Theater Communications Group. She is a Columbia University Dramaturgy MFA graduate and a recipient of two international fellowship awards from the American Association for University Women. She also holds a MA in English & Comparative Literature from the American University in Cairo. When she lived in Egypt, she was an Assistant Director in the feature film Al Kobar (trans. The Bigshots), she then joined Alumni Community Theatre as their PR & Marketing Manager. She worked as a producer, teaching artist, stage manager, playwright, dramaturg, translator, and assistant director. Highlights from her work in Egypt include: The Marriage Proposal, Jack or the Submission, The Dinosaur Play, ART, Waiting for Godot, and El Gaw Gameel (trans. The Weather is Nice). Her credits at Columbia University include: The Next War, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, UNDROWN’D, and The Love Song of J. Robert Oppenheimer. A reading of her original play, Disposable Promises, was staged at Columbia University in 2015. In 2016, she got her first off-Broadway credit as the Arabic translator for Classical Stage Company's production of Nathan the Wise. In 2017, she dramaturged Rohina Malik’s The Mecca Tales directed by Kareem Fahmy, an evening of “Arab Classic Plays” at The Martin E. Segal Theatre Center, in addition to dramaturgically collaborating on the development workshop of American Dreams & Arabian Nights by Leila Buck at the BRICLab.

Arab. Middle Eastern, and North African theatre

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English, Arabic