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Yasmine Beverly Rana
Email YBRana@aol.com

Personal Statement: Coming Up:
Mumbai, India -
The University of Mumbai's Theatre Arts Department
Reading of PARADISE
The International Women Playwrights Conference
November 1-7, 2009
Reading and Talk

ATHE Panel:
Recreating, Rewriting and Reinventing Myth: Women's Stories of Violence, Sexuality, Displacement and Creation
Panel Co-Chair with Domnica Radulescu
New York
August 11, 2009

Forthcoming: THE WAR ZONE IS MY BED AND OTHER PLAYS BY YASMINE BEVERLY RANA

Published by Seagull Books: Calcutta, London, New York

CREATIVE ARTS THERAPIES AND DEPRESSIVE DISORDERS
A chapter on dramatherapy and depression
Edited by Stephanie Brooke
C. Thomas Publishers

*Photo by Dennis Dalelio

Current Work
Dateline NBC
Voiceover from May 29, 2009 "Fatal Visions"
Voice of Faylene Grant
Parts 1-12
Available on NBC's Dateline
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/31002364#31002364

The Accidental Festival
The Roundhouse
Camden
London, UK
May 23, 2009
Visit www.accidentalfestival.com or
www.roundhouse.org.uk for ticket information

"A stoning, a burial alive, a drowning in the Mississippi River, an interrogation, and an honor killing are found in Paradise a solo performance written and performed by Yasmine Beverly Rana and directed by Jacqueline Honeybourne, both artistic associates at The Looking Glass Theatre in New York."

Now Available ...
THE CONTEMPORARY EUROPEAN IDEA
January 2009 Issue
PARADISE: http://www.ideeaeuropeana.ro/download/conte_ianuarie_2009.pdf (Page 24)

Now available: CINCI PIESE DE TEATRU
Published by Casa Cartii De Stiinta
www.casacartii.ro
editura@casacartii.ro
ISBN: 978-973-133-408-0

Now available on youtube.com
OVER THE HEDGES
NICE
From GI60

Travel and Culture Reviews on worldreviewer.com
Short Bio
Born in New Orleans, Louisiana, Yasmine is a playwright, arts therapist, and educator. Yasmine's plays have been produced and developed in the United States and abroad.

Fellowships include the Paulette Goddard Fellowship from New York University, the Walter E. Dakin Fellowship in Playwriting from the Sewanee Writers Conference at the University of the South, the Cultural Exchange Station of Tabor, Czech Republic.

Yasmine is also a Registered Drama Therapist and has worked with refugees in Bosnia, The Republic of Georgia, and Switzerland where she implemented an arts and education program for Bosnian youth.

She holds Master's degrees in Education and Dramatic Writing, with clinical certificates in Creative Arts Therapies and International Trauma Studies. Yasmine's work with the arts and traumatized populations has been presented internationally at conferences and workshops.
THE WEEKLY TELEGRAPH published an article on Yasmine's work with English language learning, the arts, and displaced populations.

Yasmine's plays are currently being translated into Romanian for an upcoming publication of a volume of her work.

Literary Manager of Nora's Playhouse in New York
www.norasplayhouse.org

Union Affiliations/Professional Organizations
Dramatists Guild, Writer's Guild of America, East, PEN, National Association of Drama Therapy (Registered Drama Therapist), New York State Licensed Creative Arts Therapist

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Art forms
Literary, Theater

Type of artist
Writer

General Themes
International/Global, Mental Health/Psychology, Violence, Activism/Social Justice, Feminism/Gender Issues
Keywords
Race and Identity, Culture, Trauma and Memory
Last updated on July 4th, 2009

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