We are thrilled to welcome Yussef El Guindi to our client roster!

Yussef El Guindi’s most recent productions include "Threesome" at Portland Center 
Stage, ACT, and at 59E59 (winner of a Portland Drammy for Best Original Script); "The Ramayana" (co-adaptor with Stephanie Timm) at ACT; and "Pilgrims Musa and Sheri in the New World" (winner of the Steinberg/ American Theater Critics Association’s New Play Award in 2012; Gregory Award 2011; Seattle Times’ “Footlight Award” for Best World Premiere Play, 2011) also at ACT, and at Center Repertory Company (Walnut Creek, CA) 2013; and "Language Rooms" (Edgerton Foundation New American Play Award, as well as ACT’s New Play Award), co-produced by Golden Thread Productions and Asian American Theater Company in San Francisco; at the Wilma Theater in Philadelphia (premiere), and at the Los Angeles Theater Center. Other productions: "Jihad Jones and The Kalashnikov Babes", produced at Golden Thread Productions in San Francisco, at InterAct Theater in Philadelphia, and at Kitchen Dog theater in Dallas, as part of the National New Play Network. It has also been performed at Theater Schmeater in Seattle, Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater in Massachusetts, and at Cyrano’s Theatre Company in Anchorage. His play "Our Enemies: Lively Scenes of Love and Combat" was produced by Silk Road Theater Project and won the M. Elizabeth Osborn award. His plays, "Back of the Throat" (winner of L.A. Weekly’s Excellence in Playwriting Award for 2006), as well as "Pilgrims Musa and Sheri in the New World", "Jihad Jones and The Kalashnikov Babes", "Such a Beautiful Voice is Sayeda’s and Karima’s City", have been published by Dramatists Play Service. The latter one-acts have also been included in "The Best American Short Plays: 2004-2005", published by Applause Books. "Ten Acrobats in an Amazing Leap of Faith" (winner of Chicago’s “After Dark/John W. Schmid Award” for Best New Play in 2006) is included in "Salaam/ Peace: An Anthology of Middle-Eastern American Playwrights", published by TCG, 2009. "Our Enemies: Lively Scenes of Love and Combat" is included in the anthology "Four Arab American Plays" published by McFarland Books. "Pilgrims Musa and Sheri in the New World" was included in the September, 2012 issue of American Theatre Magazine. And "Language Rooms" was published in Rain City Projects’ anthology "Manifesto Series Volume 3". Yussef is the recipient of the 2010 Middle East America Distinguished Playwright Award, and Seattle’s 2015 Stranger’s Genius Award. He holds an MFA from Carnegie-Mellon University and was playwright-in-residence at Duke University. His new play, "The Talented Ones" received its world premiere at the Artists Repertory Theater in Portland, Oregon, in its 2016/17 season.

From The Oregonian/OregonLive
​"The Talented Ones," a sharp, instantly engaging, alternately earnest and sardonic comedy by playwright Yussef El Guindi that's getting its world premiere at Artists Repertory Theatre, takes a deep dive into its real setting: the intersection between immigration and the American Dream."

Read The Talented Ones By Yussef El Guindi

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