Talk with resident Mashuq Mushtaq Deen Oct 12
We are very pleased to host a public talk with our current resident Mashuq Mushtaq Deen in person at the Siena Art Institute and online streaming live on the Siena Art Institute's YouTube channel and Facebook page on Tuesday Oct 12 at 6pm Siena / noon NYC:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2hhyeTpkR4
https://www.facebook.com/SienaArt/videos/208223811266235
The event is in English. Audience participation is encouraged!
For people attending the event in person at the Siena Art Institute, it is recommended to arrive 15 minutes before the start of the event to allow for the implementation of Covid-19 related measures. Green pass is mandatory.
Space is limited so reservations are strongly encouraged (email info@sienaart.org or call 0577 573086 to reserve a place)
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Mashuq Mushtaq Deen is a resident playwright at New Dramatists, a Playwrights Center CORE Writer, and a Lambda Literary Award Winner. His full-length plays include Flood (covid-cancelled production at Kansas City Rep 2021), The Empty Place (commission, workshop production at NYU), The Betterment Society (upcoming publication, Methuen Books), The Shaking Earth (covid-postponed production at National Queer Theater 2020; first runner-up for Sulthan Padamsee Playwriting Prize, India), Draw the Circle (productions: PlayMakers Rep, Mosaic Theatre, Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre; published: Dramatists Play Service; winner Lambda Literary Award), and Tank & Horse (world premiere: Berkshire Fringe Festival). 
Deen’s work has been presented/developed/supported by a number of institutions including New Dramatists, Sewanee Writers Conference (upcoming), Sundance Institute/Ucross, Blue Mountain Center, The Public Theater, NYTW, MacDowell Colony, Bogliasco Foundation, Helene Wurlitzer Foundation, Target Margin Theatre, Keen Company, New Harmony Project, Phoenix Theatre, Chesley/Bumbalo Foundation, Arch and Bruce Brown Foundation, New York Foundation for the Arts, InterAct Theatre, Page73, Ma-Yi, Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics, Georgetown University, BEAT Festival, PACE University, Hampshire College, Averett University, Dixon Place, Passage Theatre, Queens Theatre in the Park, Tofte Lake Center, and the Berkshire Fringe Festival. He has also received a 2017 Kilroy’s List Honorable Mention, been a Jerome New York Fellowship finalist (twice), O'Neill Conference semifinalist (thrice), Weissberger Award nomination, Playwrights Center Core Writers finalist (twice), and has received a James Baldwin Award, and Dennis Johnston Playwriting Prize honorable mention. He is a member of the NYTW Usual Suspects, Ma-Yi Writers Lab, founding member of the Public Theater Alumni Writers Group, and the Dramatists Guild. He earned his MFA from the Actors Studio Drama School/New School for Drama. He is represented by the Gurman Agency. In his spare time, Deen is a man of many hobbies.
