Betty Shamieh

Betty Shamieh is a Palestinian-American writer and actor. Her play Roar was presented by the New Group in March 2004. Her essay "Lives I Could Not Have Led" was published in the July/August 2003 issue of American Theater magazine. She was awarded the New Dramatists Van Lier Fellowship. A graduate of Harvard University and Yale School of Drama, Betty is currently the professor of screenwriting at Marymount Manhattan College.