Betty Shamieh

Betty Shamieh is an American playwright, author, screenwriter, and actor of Palestinian descent. She has written 15 plays.

Shamieh was born in San Francisco, California. She holds degrees from Harvard University and the Yale School of Drama.

In 2012, Shamieh has authored 15 plays.

In 2004, she was a Clifton Visiting Artist at Harvard University and was selected as Playwriting fellow at Harvard University's Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies in 2005.

She has been awarded a Sundance Theatre Institute residency, New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship, New Dramatists Van Lier fellowship, Ford Foundation grant, Yaddo residency, Arts International grant, and Rockefeller Foundation residency in Bellagio, Italy. She was awarded a playwriting grant from the National Endowment for the Arts and Theatre Communications Group to spend 2008 as a playwright-in-residence at the Magic Theatre.

Currently, Shamieh is a professor at Marymount Manhattan College in New York City. She also serves on the Screenwriting/Playwriting Advisory Board for the New York Foundation for the Arts and is working on a commission from Time Warner/Second Stage Theatre plus a first novel.

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