Najla Said is a Lebanese-Palestinian-American actor, playwright, and author. She was a founding member of the Arab American Theatre Company NIBRAS, in 2001. Their inaugural production, “Sajji: Record” won the Award for Best Ensemble Performance at the 2002 New York International Fringe Festival. In 2010, her solo show, PALESTINE, had a sold-out Off-Broadway run-in 2010, and she has performed it at over 50 colleges, high schools, institutions, and events all over the world. That same year, she was named one of the “Forty Feminists Over Forty” by The Feminist Press. In 2013, she published a memoir (“Looking for Palestine: Growing Up Confused in an Arab-American Family”) based on her play, which is currently a part of many high school and university curriculums. She has also written two librettos, the first of which- Zabur- was a collaboration with the composer Mohammed Fair that premiered at the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra and was also performed at Carnegie Hall. Her second libretto, based on the text of her book, was set to music by David Coleman, and performed by the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra under the direction of Daniel Barenboim, all over Europe, most notably at the BBC Proms and Salzburg Festival. As an actor, she has performed Off-Broadway as well as regionally, in multiple productions.
Najla had the privilege of working with Vanessa Redgrave on a theatrical adaptation of the memoir “A World I Loved” (written by her Lebanese grandmother, Wadad Makdisi Cortas) which they performed in the UK, Beirut, and New York. Recent TV and Film credits include NCIS: New Orleans, New Amsterdam, and Feud. Her writing has appeared in such publications as The New York Times, The Nation, Guernica, and Mizna, as well as in various anthologies. Najla is a graduate of Princeton University and The Actors Center Conservatory in New York.
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