Heather Raffo
Heather Raffo is a singular and outstanding voice in the American theatre whose work has been championed by The New Yorker as “an example of how art can remake the world.” Having helped forge a new ge... Read more
Heather Raffo is a singular and outstanding voice in the American theatre whose work has been championed by The New Yorker as “an example of how art can remake the world.” Having helped forge a new genre of Arab American theatre, she’s spent her career writing and embodying stories of Iraq: from the lives and dreams of Iraqi women in her seminal work 9 Parts of Desire (2003) (Lortel award, Blackburn, Outer Critics Circle, Helen Hayes nominations), to the suicidal ideation of an Iraq war veteran in the opera Fallujah (2012), to the restless longings of an Iraqi refugee architect in Noura (2018) (Helen Hayes and Weissberger awards).