{"id":426,"date":"2022-07-23T10:36:24","date_gmt":"2022-07-23T14:36:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/artnow\/?page_id=426"},"modified":"2022-11-06T21:57:03","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T02:57:03","slug":"leila-buck","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/artnow\/leila-buck\/","title":{"rendered":"Leila Buck"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Biography<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Leila Buck is a Lebanese American playwright actor, facilitator and educator. She has written numerous plays and has taught in more than 20 Arab and European countries and throughout the US. Some of her key plays include American Dreams<\/em>, In the Crossing<\/em>, and Arabian Nights<\/em>, Hkeelee: Talk to Me<\/em>, Mix & Match<\/em>, and 1001 Nights (A Retelling)<\/em>. Buck\u2019s work has been widely produced and developed in theaters such as the Public Theater, Round House Theater, The Working Theater, Hartford Stage, Cleveland Public Theater, the New York Theater Workshop, and the BRIC Lab. She received her BA from Wesleyan University and her M.A. in Theatre for Cross Cultural Education from New York University, where she now teaches Participatory Performance and Civic Engagement and Creation and Representation in U.S. Theater. As the recipient of the Wesleyan University\u2019s Doris Duke Foundation Building Bridges artist-in-residence grant, she dedicated much of her time to producing interactive work with students that would focus primarily on the misrepresentation of Muslims in the U.S., as is reflected in much of her work. She is the recipient of the Edgar Beckham Social Justice Award (2015), the 2020 Fox Foundation Resident Actor Fellow, the Barrymore Award (at Wilma Theater) recipient, Special Jury Prize from Middle Eastern American Grant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Career Highlight<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Leila Buck\u2019s first play, ISite<\/em> (1999), is an award-winning one-woman show about growing up between the U.S. and the Arab world. For over ten years the play has toured the U.S., Europe and China and has been published in Four Arab American Plays<\/em> (McFarland Press)<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

American Dreams<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n