9 Parts of Desire

Playwright: Heather Raffo

Directed by: Milt Zoth

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From November 7 – 23, St. Louis Actors’ Studio presents a St. Louis premiere—Iraqi-American playwright Heather Raffo’s 9 Parts of Desire. First performed in August 2003, this play shines a spotlight on a cross-section of Iraqi women in “an unusually timely meditation on the ancient, the modern and the feminine in a country overshadowed by war.” Artistic Director Milt Zoth will direct this critically acclaimed show that The New Yorker calls “an example of how art can remake the world.”

Cast
Mary Schnitzler
Brooke Edwards
Sara Renschen

Heather Raffo (Playwright)
Heather is the recipient of a Susan Smith Blackburn Prize Special Commendation and the Marian Seldes-Garson Kanin Fellowship for 9 Parts of Desire. Most recently she has received a 2005 Lucille Lortel award for Best Solo show as well as an Outer Critics Circle Nomination and a Drama League nomination for Outstanding Performance. Heather first performed 9 Parts of Desire in August 2003 at the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh. It later moved to the Bush Theatre in London's Off-West End, where critics hailed it as one of the five best plays in London in late 2003. 9 Parts of Desire was then developed and performed as a reading at The Public Theatre as part of their New Work Now festival in Spring 2004. Its New York premiere took place in the fall of 2004 at the Manhattan Ensemble Theater, where the show ran for nine sold-out months. In 2005 the play began touring the U.S. at the Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles. Following were new productions at Berkeley Rep, Seattle Rep, The Wilma Theatre and Arena Stage in D.C. as well as international productions.