above: Karim Nagi in Detour Guide with Silk Road Rising and Stage Left Theatre https://www.silkroadrising.org/home-silk-road-rising
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I make theatre ​about my own and other cultures, stories  that challenge racism, stories by and about women, stories about the environment, stories about our resilience and our limitations as humans. With theatre I explore the fractured
postmodern world and counter its divisions by bringing people together in rehearsal and in performance.
                                  Theatre gives me the tools to engage my audience with words, spectacle, humor and pathos.
                                   With theatre I can  challenge, entertain, provoke and help connect people and ideas.                               
                                                                                                                                                                                                                ANNA C. BAHOW

ANNA C. BAHOW is a Chicago-based theatre director committed to developing new work and a diversity of voices. She is an Artistic Associate with Silk Road Cultural Center - foregrounding Asian, South Asian, and Middle Eastern artists; an Associate Artist with The International Voices Project - bringing plays from around the world to Chicago; an Associate Artist at Chicago Dramatists and a member of Promethean Theatre. She was honored to have served as a Maggio Fellow at the Goodman Theatre and to be a recipient of a 3ARTS WAVE Grant and several Chicago Individual Artist Grants. Bahow has received awards for her direction, and her productions have received JEFF Awards for New Work and Use of Multi-Media.
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