An Afternoon with my Mother, by Fouad Teymour

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WHEN
Saturday, October 07 @ 2:00 PM

WHERE
Live at Chicago Dramatists!
798 N Aberdeen

AN AFTERNOON WITH MY MOTHER
Written by CD Resident Playwright Fouad Teymour
Directed by Warner Crocker

ABOUT THE PLAY:
Amy has lived her entire life assuming she is an orphan. On the eve of her eighteenth birthday, she is faced with a jolting revelation; her mother is alive but has been in a coma since before Amy’s birth. With the help of her adoptive family, Amy anxiously prepares to spend a whole afternoon with her mother. 

MEET THE PLAYWRIGHT:
Fouad Teymour is a Chicago-based Egyptian American playwright. He is an associate artist of Silk Road Rising, and a board member for International Voices Project (IVP). The Jeff-recommended world premiere of his play Twice, Thrice, Frice…, directed by Patrizia Acerra, was co-produced by Silk Road Rising and IVP. It was listed among Chicago Best Plays 2019 by Picture this Post. His play Blue Fish in A Tall Clear Vase, directed by Jason Smith, was produced at Three Cat Productions (2017) where he had previously collaborated on The Other Side of Christmas (2016), and Holiday Stories (2015), and where his play An Afternoon With My Mother (2015) was featured in the Chicago New Work Festival. Twice, Thrice, Frice… was part of the Crescent and Star Staged Reading Series at Silk Road Rising (August 2017), the New American Voices Series at Queens Theater, NY (October 2018), and a semi-finalist for the Bay Area Playwrights Festival BAPF 2018. He translated Ahmed Serag’s The Castle and The Sparrow from Arabic (Performed in IVP 2014. Published in 2015 by Dar Ibda’a in Egypt). Fouad is a former Network Member with Chicago Dramatists.