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Yussef El Guindi
Playwright

Yussef El Guindi

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Writing Back of the Throat and plays about immigrant experience.

Language Rooms · Pilgrims Musa and Sheri in the New World

Born
1960
Birthplace
Egypt

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Yussef El Guindi

Yussef El Guindi is an Egyptian-American playwright whose work explores language, belonging and political suspicion.

Early life

Education

Grew up partly in London, studied at the American University in Cairo and earned an MFA at Carnegie Mellon.

Career

  1. Teaching

    Duke University

    Taught playwriting and served as playwright-in-residence.

  2. 2005

    Back of the Throat

    Reached wider attention with the play.

  3. 2018

    ACT Theatre

    Joined its core playwright company.

Selected work

Language Rooms

Explored translation and suspicion.

Pilgrims Musa and Sheri in the New World

Wrote the play that received the Steinberg/ATCA award.

Beyond work

Citizenship

Became a United States citizen in 1996.

Sources & photo creditBiography and career ↗Biographical references ↗

Original photograph. Cropped and displayed in monochrome.

Photo: Aboudaqn. CC BY-SA 4.0 · Original image. Cropped and displayed in monochrome.