Saheem Ali

Saheem is a freelance director based in New York City. His credits include The Booty Call (Inner Voices), Hair (Pace), A Lesson From Aloes (Juilliard), The Erlkings (Theater Row), Farhad (Inner Voices), Vital Signs (Riant Theatre), Marisol (Barnard College), The Wild Party (Columbia University), Romeo & Juliet (Commonwealth Shakespeare Company’s Tour of the Parks), Spring Awakening (Northeastern University). Associate Directing: The Tempest (NYC Public Theater’s Shakespeare in the Park). Selected workshops and staged readings: Pornplay (MCC), The Dangerous House of Pretty Mbane (Tom Kirdahy Productions), Kill Move Paradise (National Black Theater), Acquittal (Pan Asian Rep), The Children (BRIC), Black Maria on Koinange Street (PEN World Voices), Facing Our Truths (Public Theater), Nollywood Dreams (Soho Rep and National Black Theater), Goddess (O’Neill Musical Theater Conference), Tsunami (PEN). Assistant Directing on Broadway: A Free Man of Color (Lincoln Center), The Normal Heart (The Golden). Schubert Fellow, New York Theatre Workshop Emerging Artist of Color Fellow, SDCF Gielgud Directing Fellow. MFA Columbia University

Previous DPT Work

Dot — Season Two