Bina Sharif

Bina Sharif is an award-winning prolific Pakistani American playwright, actress, director, performer and a visual artist. She has written, directed and performed over 30 plays produced in USA, Pakistan and Europe.

Her most recent work, the full-length play, "My Ancestor’s House" by Ruttledge Press and taught in many Universities. The follow up of, "My Ancestor’s House," a play called, "Another Journey Home/Eight Dialogues in a Mirror Cracked" was produced in 2010 in NYC and Pakistan. Her most notable work, the highly acclaimed, "Afghan Woman," opened in NYC in 2002 and was performed in UK, Pakistan, Hawaii, Belgium, and is now translated in Arabic. Ms. Sharif performed Afghan Woman and excerpts from many of her other plays at universities such as Princeton, Wellesley College, University of Pennsylvania, Ohio State University, Denver, Colorado, Champagne, Illinois, Toronto, Temple University, Montclair University, Sacramento, California, and Prestigious Islamabad Club Pakistan. In March 2016, University of Southern Florida honored Bina Sharif for 30 plays in 30 years.

She is a Joseph Jefferson award nominee actress from Chicago’s Goodman Theater. Sharif is 10 times award winner by Jerome Foundation, two time New York State Council of the Arts, Franklin Furnace award and the best performer award at a gay and lesbian theater festival. As an actress, Sharif has worked with Vanessa Redgrave, Fernando Arrabal, Brían Francis O'Byrne, Lee Breuer, Robert Patrick, Charles Busch, Crystal Field, Irene Fornes, Sarah Schulman, Kevin Martin, Jane Adams and Todd Solandz. Along with directing her own work, she also directed a one-man show, "A Touch of the Poe" featuring Kevin Mitchell Martin based on Edgar Allen Poe's life and works at the Edinburgh, Scotland Fringe Festival for which they were awarded The Pick of the Fringe.

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