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Heather Raffo is a multi award-winning playwright and actress whose plays have been championed by The New Yorker as “an example of how art can remake the world”. She is the author and performer of NOURA (2018), Fallujah (PBS film, 2016), and 9 Parts of Desire (2003, PBS film 2023) which played across the U.S. and internationally for over two decades helping birth a whole new genre of Arab American Theater. An anthology of her work Heather Raffo’s Iraq Plays: The Things That Can’t Be Said (2021), brings together two decades of her contributions to shaping national and cultural conversations in the decades since 9/11. A recent Creative Capital, APAP and NPN grantee, Raffo is currently building an ambitious new theatrical platform following migration and the global economy which aims to be the first ever-evolving, multi-locational play.