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Heather Raffo is most famous for her notable role in the one-woman play 9 Parts of Desire. The play focuses on the lives of women in her father's homeland, and was originally conceived in 1993 after a visit to her Iraqi relatives.
Mar 30, 2023 · After the U.S. invaded Iraq 20 years ago, Iraqi American playwright and actor Heather Raffo created and starred in an acclaimed play “Nine Parts of Desire” about the lives of Iraqi women.
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May 5, 2023 · I felt very Michigan,” says Heather Raffo, an Iraqi-American playwright, filmmaker and actress. But then, she tells New Lines magazine’s Rasha Al Aqeedi, the outbreak of the Gulf War in the early 1990s forced her to grapple with what it meant to have her identity split between two nations at war.
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.
Jul 28, 2020 · For playwright Heather Raffo, debuting her new play, “Noura,” at San Diego’s Old Globe is a homecoming of sorts. Ten years ago, a play she developed while part of the Old Globe Theatre program, “9 Parts of Desire,” was staged by Mo’olelo Performing Arts Company at the 10 th Avenue Theatre.
A recent Creative Capital, APAP and NPN grantee, Raffo is currently building an ambitious new theatrical platform following migration and the global economy which aims to be the first ever-evolving, multi-locational play.
Heather Raffo is a singular and outstanding voice in the American theater whose work has been championed by The New Yorker as “an example of how art can remake the world.”
