Yasmine Beverly Rana Biography

Yasmine has had plays stage-read and produced at The Birmingham Repertory Theatre in England, The International Women Playwrights Festival in Greece, The Jewel Box Theatre in Los Angeles, Playwrights Theater of New Jersey, 12 Miles West Theater Company, The John Harms Center for the Performing Arts, The Samuel French Short Play Festival, The Turnip Theater Festival, The Pulse Ensemble Theatre, and The Looking Glass Theatre. Excerpts from her plays have been published in The Best Stage Scenes and The Best Women's Monologues series from Smith and Kraus Publishers, The Alabama Literary Review, and U.S. 1 Worksheets. She is a Paulette Goddard Fellow from New York University and a 2004 recipient of the Walter E. Dakin Fellowship in Playwriting from the Sewanee Writers' Conference. She has graduate degrees in Education and the Creative Arts Therapies. Yasmine has worked as a drama therapist in Bosnia-Herzegovina, The Republic of Georgia, and Switzerland