Kareem Fahmy

Kareem Fahmy is a playwright and director from Sherbrooke, Quebec who resides in New York. His plays have been produced Off-Broadway and at theatres across America. He received the 2022 Woodward/Newman Playwriting Award (for American Fast), a MacDowell Fellowship, the Janet Sloane Literature Residency at Yaddo, a New York State Council for the Arts Playwriting Fellowship, is a two-time finalist for the National Showcase of New Plays and was named a Rising Leader of Color by Theatre Communications Group. A Distinct Society received a co-world premiere at TheatreWorks Silicon Valley and Pioneer Theatre and its Midwest premiere at Writers Theatre. American Fast had a National New Play Network Rolling World Premiere at Artists Repertory Theatre, City Theatre, and InterAct Theatre. Dodi & Diana received a world premiere at Colt Coeur. Other plays include Riparian States, Fountains of Youth, Pareidolia, The In-Between, and an adaptation of the acclaimed novel The Yacoubian Building. Commissions: Audible, Artists Rep, Colt Coeur, Ensemble Studio Theatre/Sloan Foundation, inaugural recipient of The Next Forever Commission from The Civilians and Princeton University. Selected directing credits: Cincinnati Playhouse, Writers Theatre, Pioneer Theatre, Contemporary American Theatre Festival, Portland Stage, Crossroads Theatre. Fellowships/Residencies: Stratford Festival Playwrights Retreat, Banff Playwrights Lab, Sundance Theatre Lab, The Old Globe (Classical Directing Fellow), Oregon Shakespeare Festival (Phil Killian Directing Fellow), The O’Neill (National Directors Fellow). Kareem has an MFA in Theatre Directing from Columbia University.