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Plays include SELLING KABUL (Playwrights Horizons, Williamstown Theater Festival, Seattle Repertory Theater, Signature Theater - Upcoming), POWER STRIP (LCT3, development at Playwrights Horizons, WP lab), and AGAINST THE HILLSIDE (Ensemble Studio Theater, development at the Lark, the O'Neill, Roundabout Theater Underground, and NNPN). Commissions include Lincoln Center, Williamstown Theater Festival, and Seattle Repertory Theater. 

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Awards: Pulitzer Prize Finalist (Selling Kabul), 2021 Whiting Award for Drama, L. Arnold Weissberger Award and Jay Harris Commission and a Citation of Excellence from the Laurents/Hatcher Awards. 

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Memberships (current and previous) include EST/ Youngblood, Noor Theatre/Pop Culture Collab Cohort, Rita Goldberg Playwrights’ Workshop at The Lark , the Dramatists Guild Fellowship, and the WP Lab.

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Profiles/interviews include the New York Times (on Selling Kabul), Playbill, The Paris Review (re: Whiting Award), Playwrights Horizons: Behind the Scenes of Virtual Rehearsal Process (Video),  Williamstown Theater Festival Lawn Talk (Video), the Lark, the Interval's Women to Watch, SPLIT: Playwright & Woman in Medicine (Video), and here's one from my high school newspaper, the King Street Chronicle.

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Prose includes That Doesn't Apply to Me, a piece about medicine (Playwrights Horizons Almanac). My essay about my Algerian great-grandfather and his experience fighting for France in World War One is in my Playwrights' Perspective (Playwrights Horizons).

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Education: BA (Columbia University), MFA (New School for Drama), MD (Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai)