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Jo’burg, Shakespeare and Company
and the London Academy of Music and
Dramatic Art. Quinn holds a B.A. in
theater from Williams College.
DOMINIC RAINS
Rashid
This is Dominic’s
first collaboration
with Portland Center
Stage. Dominic is
a member of the
acclaimed Elephant
Theater Company
in Los Angeles, having appeared
in The North Plan, Baby Doll, Love
Sick, Block 9 and the Love Bites series.
Dominic has appeared in over a dozen
television shows and movies, including
the Sundance Film Festival hit The
Taqwacores by Eyad Zahra (Best
Actor, International Film Festival of
Ourense, Spain), Jinn: The Ghost is Dead
(Freestyle Releasing) and the critically
acclaimed A Girl Walks Home Alone at
Night (three Independent Spirit Award
nominations, Vice Films). Upcoming
projects include the title character
‘T’ in Chee and T (directed by Tanuj
Chopra) and Funeral Day (directed by
Jon Weinberg). He is thrilled to make
his Portland Center Stage debut in the
world premiere of Yusself El Guindi’s
Threesome under the tutelage of Chris
Coleman.
YUSSEF EL GUINDI
Playwright
Yussef El Guindi’s most recent
productions include The Ramayana
(co-adaptor with Stephanie Timm)
at ACT; Pilgrims Musa and Sheri
in the New World (winner of the
Steinberg/American Theater Critics
Association’s New Play Award in 2012;
Gregory Award 2011; Seattle Times’
“Footlight Award” for Best World
Premiere Play, 2011) at ACT and
Center Repertory Company (Walnut
Creek, CA) 2013; Language Rooms
(Edgerton Foundation New American
Play Award, as well as ACT’s New
Play Award), co-produced by the
Asian American Theater Company
and Golden Thread Productions in
San Francisco, at the Wilma Theater
in Philadelphia (premiere), and at the
Los Angeles Theater Center. Other
productions: Jihad Jones and The
Kalashnikov Babes produced at Golden
Thread Productions in San Francisco,
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at InterAct Theater in Philadelphia, and
at Kitchen Dog Theater in Dallas, as
part of the National New Play Network.
It has also been performed at Theater
Schmeater in Seattle, Wellfleet Harbor
Actors Theater in Massachusetts,
and Cyrano’s Theatre Company in
Anchorage. His play Our Enemies:
Lively Scenes of Love and Combat was
produced by Silk Road Theater Project
and won the M. Elizabeth Osborn
award. His plays Back of the Throat
(winner of L.A. Weekly’s Excellence in
Playwriting Award for 2006), Pilgrims
Musa and Sheri in the New World,
Jihad Jones and The Kalashnikov Babes,
Such a Beautiful Voice is Sayeda’s and
Karima’s City have been published by
Dramatists Play Service. The latter
one-acts have also been included in
The Best American Short Plays: 20042005 published by Applause Books. Ten
Acrobats in an Amazing Leap of Faith
(winner of Chicago’s “After Dark/John
W. Schmid Award” for Best New Play in
2006) is included in Salaam/Peace: An
Anthology of Middle-Eastern American
Playwrights, published by TCG, 2009.
Our Enemies: Lively Scenes of Love and
Combat is included in the anthology
Four Arab American Plays published by
McFarland Books. Pilgrims Musa and
Sheri in the New Word was included in
the September 2012 issue of American
Theatre Magazine. Language Rooms
was published in Rain City Projects’
anthology Manifesto Series, Volume
3. Yussef is the recipient of the 2010
Middle East America Distinguished
Playwright Award. He holds an M.F.A.
from Carnegie-Mellon University and
was playwright-in-residence at Duke
University.
CHRIS COLEMAN
Director
Chris joined Portland Center Stage as
artistic director in May 2000. Before
coming to Portland, he was artistic
director at Actor’s Express in Atlanta,
a company he co-founded in the
basement of an old church in 1988.
Chris recently returned to Atlanta
to direct Phylicia Rashad and Kenny
Leon in Same Time Next Year. Favorite
PCS directing assignments include
Dreamgirls, Othello, Fiddler on the
Roof, Clybourne Park, Sweeney Todd,
Shakespeare’s Amazing Cymbeline
(which he also adapted), Anna Karenina,
Oklahoma!, Snow Falling on Cedars,
Ragtime, Crazy Enough, Beard of Avon,
Cabaret, King Lear, Cat on a Hot Tin
Roof, Man and Superman, Outrage, Flesh
and Blood and The Devils. Chris has
directed at theaters across the country,
including Actor’s Theater of Louisville,
Oregon Shakespeare Festival, ACTSeattle, The Alliance, Dallas Theatre
Center, Pittsburgh Public Theatre, New
York Theatre Workshop