SYLVIA KHOURY
Plays include SELLING KABUL (Playwrights Horizons, Williamstown Theater Festival), 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, Seattle Repertory Theater, and The LAMF/Protozoa Theater Fund.
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.
TV/Film: Currently developing an original TV project at FX with the Js and another original TV project with Plan B. She was a 2024 Sundance Screenwriting Lab Fellow.
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.
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.
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).
Education: BA (Columbia University), MFA (New School for Drama), MD (Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai)
SELLING KABUL
PLAYS:
2W, 2M
Finalist for the 2022 Pulitzer Prize in Drama
World Premiere: Williamstown Theater Festival, July 2019
New York Premiere: Playwrights Horizons, 2021
Northern Stage, Hartford, VT, 2023
Premiere Stages, Kean University, 2023
Red Stitch Actor's Theatre, Melbourne, 2023
Ensemble Theatre Company, Santa Barbara, 2023
Signature Theater, Arlington, VA, 2023
Seattle Repertory Theater, 2022
L. Arnold Weissberger Award and Jay Harris Commission, 2018
Citation of Excellence, Laurents/Hatcher Award, 2018
Spring Reading Festival at New Group, 2018
Kilroys List 2017
Noor Theater Reading at NYTW, 2017
DNA New Works Reading at La Jolla Playhouse, 2017
Photo by Yael Nov
Agents (CAA):
Ally Shuster (Theater): ally.shuster@caa.com
Lauren Fox (TV): lauren.fox@caa.com
Rukayat Giwa (TV): rukayat.giwa@caa.com
Managers (Grandview):
Jeff Silver: jeff@grandviewla.com
Gabby Lewis: Gabrielle@grandviewla.com
Tracy Kopulsky: tracy@grandviewla.com
POWER STRIP
2W, 2M
World Premiere: LCT3, October-November 2019
Playwrights Horizons Reading, May 2018
Pipeline Festival Reading, Womens’ Project, April 2018
AGAINST THE HILLSIDE
2W, 7M
Ensemble Studio Theater Premiere, Feb. 2018
Kilroys List 2017 (finalist)
Kilroys List 2016
Lark Playwrights’ Week, 2016
O'Neill Theater Conference, 2016
Roundabout Underground Reading Series, 2016
NNPN National Showcase of New Plays, 2016
MFA Playwrights’ Workshop at the Kennedy Center, 2015