Betty Shamieh worlds apart: writing articulate Arab women is her specialty.(Profiles)(Interview)(Biography)
American Theatre, March, 2004 by Renner, Pamela
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At any other moment, Betty Shamieh would have been the happiest person in town. Her two-person play, Chocolate in Heat--about growing up Palestinian in America--had been one of the word-of-mouth hits of the 2001 New York International Fringe Festival in August, without any publicists to spin gossamer webs or critics to burble out blurbs, simply because audiences enjoyed the show. Now it was September 2001, and her venue wanted to extend the run. For Shamieh, a recent playwriting graduate from the Yale School of Drama, it should have been a moment to savor.
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