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Rehana Lew Mirza: Playwright and Filmmaker. Photo by Christine Chambers. DON'T WANNA MISS A THING? SIGN UP FOR MY MAILING LIST! * Indicates required field. Name * First. Last. Email * Comment * Submit. Powered by Create your own unique website with customizable templates.
She founded the award-winning South Asian theater and film company, Desipina & Co, alongside her sister Rohi Mirza Pandya in 2001, where together they produced the popular Seven.11 series (seven, 11-minute plays all set in a convenience store.)
Drama, 1 hr, 40 min. 4W, 6M. Loner and grungy Muslim-American student Jennah has just transferred to a small Michigan high school, and during the weeks immediately following the 2016 election, she struggles to find her place as she embarks on a battle of wills against a popular History and Civics teacher.
Rehana's first short film as writer/director, Modern Day Arranged Marriage, has toured to over 40 festivals internationally and won the audience award at NBC's DiverseCity Short Cuts Festival. It premiered on cable on MTV/LOGO’s Best in Short Film.
Rehana Lew Mirza: Follow Me Everywhere Welcome About Plays Film Press One-Act/Short Plays HUSH a monologue 1F. Produced with Yoni Ki Baat, University of Michigan, 2009; Produced at Sundaram Arts Gallery, 2000; Published with Alexander Street Press; A woman shares a lullabye, as she herself remains trapped between child and adult, daydream and reality. *Read HUSH: a monologue SHOWING SKIN Fifteen-minute play ...
Mirza's 'Barriers' to be Staged in Calif- By MICHEL W. pons Special to India-West HOLLYWOOD, Calif. - After a successful premiere in New York on the anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, Rehana Mirza's play "Barriers" is cur- rently in rehearsal in prepara- tion for a West Coast staging in
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Rehana Lew Mirza: Follow Me Everywhere Welcome About Plays Film Press FEATURED SELECTIONS OF YORE. NY Times Wedding Announcement - April 16, 2011. HIDING DIVYA Premiere - August 2010 TCG Future Leader Spotlight On - June 2010. The end of Seven.11 -- 2009! Desipina feature story, June 2008. Profile in The Indian Express, 2007. MODERN DAY ARRANGED MARRIAGE, 2006 press ...
Rehana Mirza rehana.mirza@gmail.com. CHARACTERS: Damien - 40s, white, male corporate yuppie entrepreneur Savti - 40s, white, female, new-age masseuse Robert - late 20s, East Asian male, neurotic, sweet Miriam - late 20s, South Asian / middle eastern female, pushover with a desire to be bigger and better than she is Aliyah - late 20s, South Asian/middle eastern female, mischevious