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Daaimah Mubashshir

Assistant Professor of Theater and Performance

Primary Academic Program: Theater and Performance

Biography:

Daaimah Mubashshir is a playwright and theater-maker whose work has been commissioned by the Guthrie Theater, Minneapolis, and 3 Hole Press. She is the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships, including 2021 PlayCo Residency for Black Women Theatre Makers; 2020–22 WP Theater Lab Fellowship; 2019-22 Core Writer Fellowship (Playwrights Center, Minnesota), an Audrey Residency (New Georges), MacDowell Fellowship, Catwalk Institute Residency, and Foundation of Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant. She is also an alumna of Fire This Time Festival. Recent theater and video works include The Immeasurable Want of Light, a full-length play with images; Room Enough (for Us All), presented at, among others, PlayLabs Reading Series at Playwrights Center, Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, and Judson Church Magic Time Reading Series; Chronicles of Cardigan and Khente, at Dixon Place, Little Theatre, and Soho Rep Writers/Directors Lab workshop; There Is Something about a Clockface, Fire This Time Festival and Ensemble Studio Theatre readings; and Rum for Sale, Roundabout Theatre reading and Signature Theatre Ford Studio, New Play Fest. Publications include the book The Immeasurable Want of Light (3 Hole Press, 2018); Molasses and a Blue Coat, Kenyon Review Online; and The Zero Loop, No Tokens Journal, among others. Mubashshir is the artistic director of {EDAP}, which “produces moving image work, text, and performance to give audiences a kinetic experience of black bodies freeing themselves from the bondage of our past.” She has been a guest speaker at Yale School of Drama, Williams College, Skidmore College, and Kennesaw State University.

BFA, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago; MFA, Columbia University School of the Arts. At Bard: 2021–2024.

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Website: https://daaimahmubashshir.com
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