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Dario Ladani Sanchez (Taroon) and Marjan Neshat (Afiya). Photo by Joan Marcus.

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Dario Ladani Sanchez (Taroon). Photo by Joan Marcus.

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Mattico David (Jawid) and Marjan Neshat (Afiya). Photo by Joan Marcus.

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Marjan Neshat (Afiya), Mattico David (Jawid), and Francis Benhamou (Leyla). Photo by Joan Marcus.

Selling Kabul artwork, showing a black and white image of a Middle Eastern man with the American flag behind him. The flag's stripes cover his eyes and mouth. The background is pink.
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Photo by Zack DeZon

Sylvia Khoury

Photo by Zack DeZon

Sylvia Khoury is a New York-born writer of French and Lebanese descent. Her plays include Selling Kabul (Playwrights Horizons, Williamstown Theater Festival), Power Strip (LCT3), Against the Hillside (Ensemble Studio Theater) and The Place Women Go. She is currently under commission from Lincoln Center and Williamstown Theater Festival. Awards include the L. Arnold Weissberger Award and Jay Harris Commission and a Citation of Excellence from the Laurents/Hatcher Awards.  She is a member of EST/ Youngblood and a previous member of the 2018-2019 Rita Goldberg Playwrights’ Workshop at The Lark and the 2016-2018 WP Lab. Her plays have been developed at Playwrights Horizons, Williamstown Theater Festival, Eugene O’Neill Playwrights’ Conference, Roundabout Theater Underground, Lark Playwrights’ Week, EST/Youngblood, and WP Theater. She holds a BA from Columbia University and an MFA from the New School for Drama. She obtained her MD from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in May 2021.

(Updated Oct 2021)

Reviews
  • “Sylvia Khoury pulls nifty narrative and stylistic jumps out of her hat, and it works.”

    — The New York Times