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Heather Raffo (born in Michigan, United States) is a Lucille Lortel Award-winning [1] Iraqi-American [2] playwright and actress, best known for her leading role in the one-woman play 9 Parts of Desire.
Heather Raffo is the solo performer and writer of the Off Broadway hit, 9 Parts of Desire which details the lives of nine Iraqi women.
Sep 28, 2019 · She and her husband, Tareq escaped to the U.S. eight years ago, leaving behind a book-filled home and a culture destroyed, 3,000 years of history turned to rubble: books, monuments, artifacts,...
Jul 28, 2020 · Noura, by Heather Raffo, and directed by Johanna McKeon, runs September 20 – October 20, 2019 at The Old Globe. Photo by Jim Cox. “Noura” follows a Christian (Chaldean) Iraqi family as they celebrate their first Christmas Eve as US citizens.
Feb 18, 2018 · Noura (Heather Raffo) has survived the horrifying trauma of war. In Iraq, she carried a gun. We don’t learn much about what happened, except that her aunt was killed after the family left, which devastated her. She and her husband came to New York from Iraq eight years ago.
- Sophia Howes
Jan 17, 2020 · The Guthrie Theater’s production of Noura by playwright Heather Raffo was born from conversations with Arab American women who read the Ibsen classic A Doll’s House. Within a family of Iraqi refugees, Raffo explores marriage, motherhood, and immigration in today’s American society.
Dec 11, 2018 · Noura (sensitively played by Raffo) is not a carbon copy of her almost-namesake: an architect and feminist, she has an identity of her own and a loving, coequal marriage to Tareq (Nabil Elouahabi, sympathetic and touching), her doctor husband.
