Occupy the Stage 2020 at the Women's Theatre Festival. Directed by Nikta Sabouri. Cast & Creative Team: Valerie David (Maryam), Sahar Milani (Delara), Christine Mirzayan (Leyla), Karen Morgan Williams (Karen), and Mikki Marvel (Streamer).
Momentum Festival '18 at City Theatre. Directed by Maggie Sulka. Cast & Creative Team: Heather Irwin (Karen), Serena El-Khatib (Delara), Jalina McClarin (Leyla), and Tammy Tsai (Maryam); Kristen Link (Director of Education & Accessibility) and Jillian Bradshaw (Artistic Assistant).
Threads
Staged Reading, Momentum Theater Festival at City Theatre, 2018
Staged Zoom Reading, Women's Theatre Festival, 2020
Maryam has owned an eyebrow threading shop in Southern California ever since immigrating from Iran fifteen years ago. While excited to visit home for the first time since immigrating, her Americanized teenage daughter Delara is not too interested in learning about her Iranian roots, and would rather attend her first homecoming dance. By reliving her adolescence in Iran with her own mother, Maryam remembers the conflict of growing up where you don't fit in, just like her daughter. The two realize the only home they truly have is within each other.