orensanz summer museum ACTIVITIES

July 10th - 3pm SPOKEN WORD

Bina Sharif

An Hour of fun with Mona

Monologs Taliban and 72 Virgins and Diary of a thought all the writing is satirical with serious social and current topics

Bi Bina Sharif is an award-winning playwright, actress and director. Her plays have been produced in the U.S.; Pakistan; Germany; Zurich, Switzerland; Edinburgh, Scotland; Brazil, and England. Her last one-woman play, “Afghan Woman”, a response to 9/11 was produced in January 2002 at Theater for the New City. The highly acclaimed show then toured the U.S., including Hawaii, and overseas in Pakistan and Manchester, England. In Manchester, the play was hailed as a “most beautiful piece of theatre”, “unspeakably graceful”, “unforgettably haunting”, “brilliantly acted” and with “superb writing with wit, humor, grief, joy and terror.”

Originally from Islamabad, Pakistan, Bina Sharif now lives in New York City, where Theater for the New City (TNC) produced 17 of her plays including the highly acclaimed production of “My Ancestor’s House” a full-length play, “Accusation” and “Afghan Woman”. The Playground in London produced workshops of “Love is a Stranger in a Windowless Room” and “1,000 Hours of Love” about the British Raj. Mabou Mines commissioned her to write and act in her one-woman play, “Sleeping with Horses”, which toured Toronto, Zurich, Brazil and Germany. She is a Joseph Jefferson Award Nominee for acting from Chicago’s Goodman Theatre, and received the Best Performance Award at the Gay & Lesbian Theatre Festival. Ms. Sharif is a five-time Jerome Foundation recipient and is the recipient of the NY Council of the Arts grant for her plays “Fire” and “Stars of War.” She is also medical doctor and has a Masters degree in Public Health from Johns Hopkins University. She explains that she doesn’t practice medicine, “...a mistake...like many others made innocently.”

Bina Sharif