Surprisingly emotional.
Surprisingly emotional. Kelly O

Has a friend who describes being an “ethnic” playwright as:

“A kiss and a slap.”

Had to turn down PhD offers at Stanford and Yale:

Because he needed a job to get a green card.

Begins writing a new play when:

“I hear voices—and they’re insistent.”

For several years, playwright Yussef El Guindi was one of those Seattle artists whose talent seemed to be appreciated everywhere except here…

Brend an Kiley has worked as a child actor in New Orleans, as a member of the junior press corps at the 1988 Republican National Convention, and, for one happy April, as a bootlegger’s assistant in Nicaragua....