Yasmine Beverly Rana

Playwright

Program:
Collaboration Fund

Yasmine Beverly Rana’s latest play, After Rome was produced at the Khan Theatre in Jerusalem (2022). Rana was the cover story of 2022 201 Magazine’s The Arts Issue. Plays have been developed and presented at theaters including Women’s Work Festival of Newfoundland Canada, La MaMa Experimental Theatre, Tara Arts of London, among others. Fellowships and grants include a NJ State Council on the Arts TRANSITional Art Project, New Jersey State Council on the Arts Award in Playwriting, and a Walter E. Dakin Fellowship. The War Zone is My Bed was a Francesca Primus Prize finalist. Publications include The Pirandello Society of America Journal,The Alabama Literary Review, Blackbird, The Contemporary European Idea, The Kenyon Review, Lilith, TDR: The Drama Review, and anthologies, The Best Contemporary Monologues, The Best Stage Scenes, and The Best Men’s and Women’s Monologues (Smith and Kraus and Applause Books). The University of Chicago Press and Seagull Books ``In Performance Series`` anthologized four of Yasmine’s plays in The War Zone is My Bed and Other Plays. yasminebeverlyrana.com