Heather Raffo is an award-winning playwright and actor who was the solo writer and performer of the international and off-Broadway hit 9 Parts of Desire, which bridged her Iraqi and American roots and received countless awards and nominations, including the Lucille Lortel Award and Susan Smith Blackburn Special Commendation. She authored the libretto for the opera Fallujah, which was workshopped at The Kennedy Center’s International Theater Festival before premiering at Long Beach Opera and New York City Opera. The opera aired on PBS accompanied by the documentary Fallujah: Art, Healing and PTSD. Her latest work, Noura, began at Shakespeare Theatre Company in 2018 and received a Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding Original New Play and an L. Arnold Weissberger New Play Award. The original production toured to the Abu Dhabi Arts Center before its New York premiere at Playwrights Horizons. Originally from Michigan, Raffo received her B.A. in English from the University of Michigan and M.F.A. in Acting Performance from the University of San Diego. She has taught at dozens of universities and arts centers and performed globally at London’s House of Lords, the U.S.-Islamic World Forum and the Aspen Ideas Festival.

GUTHRIE Familiar, We Are Proud to Present … THEATER New York: Blue Ridge, The Great Leap (Atlantic Theater Company); Is God Is (Soho Rep.); Master (The Foundry Theatre); Underground Railroad Game (Ars Nova); International: Hamburg Theater Festival; Edinburgh Festival Fringe; Soho Rep. (London); Malthouse Theatre (Melbourne); Regional: A.R.T.; Seattle Rep; Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company; Chautauqua Theater Company; Alley Theatre; Theatre Under the Stars; Trinity Rep; Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival; PlayMakers Repertory Company; Shakespeare & Company. UPCOMING The Shed: Untitled Claudia Rankine Project; Signature Theatre: Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992. AWARDS Obie Award (Is God Is). TRAINING M.F.A., Directing, Brown University/Trinity Rep

GUTHRIE A Christmas Carol, Noura, Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner, The Bluest Eye. THEATER Off-Broadway: Pipeline (Lincoln Center Theater); Venus (Signature Theatre); Good Person of Szechwan (The Foundry Theatre/The Public Theater); The Tempest (The Public Theater); Regional: More than 100 productions at various theaters, including The Kennedy Center, Mark Taper Forum, Huntington Theatre Company, Berkeley Rep, Yale Repertory Theatre, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Children’s Theatre Company, Wilma Theater, Pig Iron Theatre Company and Philadelphia Theatre Company; Associate Artistic Director of New Paradise Laboratories. TEACHING Professor of Design, Swarthmore College. AWARDS Pew Arts Fellow; Hodder Fellow at Princeton University; Drama Desk Award

GUTHRIE Debut.THEATER Off-Broadway: Eh Dah? Questions for My Father (Hypokrit Theatre Company/Next Door at New York Theatre Workshop); The Russian and The Jew (Anna & Kitty/The Tank); Dead Are My People (Noor Theatre/Next Door at New York Theatre Workshop); New York: Marjana and the Forty Thieves (Target Margin Theater); Alternating Currents (Working Theater); Regional: Noura (The Old Globe); Yasmina’s Necklace (Premiere Stages); Selling Kabul (Williamstown Theatre Festival); Pay No Attention to the Girl (Target Margin Theater/Spoleto Festival); We’ve Come to Believe, The Corpse Washer, How to Defend Yourself (Actors Theatre of Louisville’s 43rd Humana Festival); Heartland (Geva Theatre Center). FILM Shorts: Roommates, Keiko's Hands, Jihadi Street, Shift, Prisoners of War, Lucy Barron. AWARDS J.S. Seidman Award. TRAINING M.F.A., Design for Stage and Film, NYU Tisch School of the Arts. www.dinae.me

GUTHRIE Debut. THEATER Off-Broadway: Veil Widow Conspiracy, Henry VI, Hamlet; Regional: Native Son (PlayMakers Repertory Company); Everybody Black, The Thin Place (Actors Theatre of Louisville); Nina Simone: Four Women (Alabama Shakespeare Festival); The Roommate (Long Wharf Theatre); The Vagrant Trilogy (Mosaic Theater Company); Guards at the Taj (Central Square Theater). UPCOMING The Public Theater: Disclaimer (Under the Radar Festival), The Vagrant Trilogy; Baltimore Center Stage/The Playwrights Realm: Richard & Jane & Dick & Sally. AWARDS 2019 Knight of Illumination Awards (Nina Simone: Four Women). TRAINING M.F.A., Lighting Design, New York University

GUTHRIE What the Constitution Means to Me, Noura. THEATER Broadway: What the Constitution Means to Me; National Tours: What the Constitution Means to Me, What To Send Up When It Goes Down; Off-Broadway: Which Way to the Stage, To All the Natalie Portmans (MCC Theater); Cullud Wattah, The Vagrant Trilogy (The Public Theater); English, Shhhh (Atlantic Theater Company); Wish You Were Here, What To Send Up... (Playwrights Horizons); To My Girls (Second Stage Theater); Montag (Soho Rep); Letters From Max (Signature Theatre); What the Constitution Means to Me (NYTW/Clubbed Thumb); Novenas for a Lost Hospital (Rattlestick Playwrights Theater); What To Send Up…, And She Would Stand Like This (The Movement Theatre Company); Hamlet (Waterwell); Intelligence (Next Door at NYTW); Richard in 9 Poses (Clubbed Thumb); Regional: The Kennedy Center; Yale Repertory Theatre; Berkeley Rep; Williamstown Theatre Festival; Mark Taper Forum; Geva Theatre Center; TheatreWorks Silicon Valley; PlayMakers Repertory Company; Weston Playhouse; Dorset Theatre Festival; Two River Theater; TheatreSquared. TRAINING M.F.A., Yale School of Drama. www.sinanzafar.com 

GUTHRIE More than 85 productions since 1996; Selected productions include Little Shop of Horrors, The History Plays, Into the Woods, Sally & Tom, Sweat, The Tempest, Noura, Cyrano de Bergerac, As You Like It, Noises Off and Frankenstein – Playing With Fire. THEATER Dramaturgy: The Acting Company; University of Minnesota/Guthrie Theater B.F.A. Acting Program; Hammerstein Center; NYU Tisch School of the Arts; Augsburg University. PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS Member of Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas (LMDA). TRAINING M.F.A., Columbia University; B.A., Augsburg University

GUTHRIE Stage manager: Cyrano de Bergerac, BAD NEWS! i was there… ; Assistant stage manager: Steel Magnolias, Floyd’s, A Christmas Carol (2018), Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner, Romeo and Juliet, The Bluest Eye. THEATER Chanhassen Dinner Theatres; Ordway Center for the Performing Arts; Minnesota Orchestra; Jungle Theater; History Theatre; Dark & Stormy Productions; Cardinal Theatricals; Stages Theatre Company; New Theatre Group; Theater Latté Da’s NEXT Festival; Playwrights’ Center. OPERA Minnesota Opera; Skylark Opera; Mixed Precipitation. TRAINING B.A., Lawrence University

GUTHRIE Hamlet, Sally & Tom, Sweat, Noura. THEATER Notre Dame Shakespeare Festival; Cleveland Play House; Dorset Theatre Festival; Yale Repertory Theatre. FILM/TELEVISION The Theatre Downstream: The Lemonade Jamboree, The Hepburn Girls, No Lost Cause. AWARDS Dexter Wood Luke Memorial Prize. TRAINING M.F.A., Stage Management, David Geffen School of Drama at Yale University

GUTHRIE Artistic Team member since 2003; More than 70 productions, workshops and readings since 2015, including Little Shop of Horrors, The History Plays, Dial M for Murder, ‘Art’, For the People, The Importance of Being Earnest, Shane, Into the Woods, Hamlet, The Little Prince, Sally & Tom, Vietgone, Sweat, A Raisin in the Sun, The Tempest, A Christmas Carol, Dickens’ Holiday Classic, Noura, Floyd’s, West Side Story, Familiar, Watch on the Rhine, Native Gardens and Disgraced. FILM/TELEVISION Casting Consultant: Master Servant. TEACHING University of Minnesota/Guthrie Theater B.F.A. Acting Program; Universities in MN and the U.S. TRAINING B.A., Theatre, MSU Moorhead 

GUTHRIE Over 20 productions, recently including 'Art', For the People, Into the Woods, Murder on the Orient Express and Vietgone. THEATER Ordway: Jesus Christ Superstar, The Pirates of Penzance; Minnesota Opera: Carmen; Park Square Theatre: Hamlet; Commonweal Theatre Company: The Three Musketeers; Red Bird Theatre: Buried Child; Gremlin Theatre: Dial M for Murder; Theatre Pro Rata: The Illusion; Lyric Arts: Superior Donuts; Exposed Brick Theatre: Muyehpen; Theatre in the Round: The Three Musketeers; Old Log Theatre: The Play That Goes Wrong. FILM/TELEVISION Stunt Coordinator: Bitcon, Profile of a Killer; Utility Stunts: Marmalade, Body Language, Christmas Break-In, Thin Ice. www.fakefighting.com