Fargo Nissim Tbakhi is a queer Palestinian-American performance artist and writer. He is the winner of the Ghassan Kanafani Resistance Arts Prize, a Pushcart and Best of the Net nominee, and a Taurus. He has received fellowships from Rhizome DC, VisArts, Desert Nights Rising Stars, Halcyon Arts Lab, Mosaic Theater, and RAWI. His writing appears in Foglifter, Mizna, Peach Mag, Apex Magazine, Strange Horizons, the Shallow Ends, Prolit, and select bags of Nomadic Grounds Coffee. His performance work has been programmed at OUTsider Fest, INTER-SECTION Solo Fest, the Rachel Corrie Foundation’s Shuruq Festival, the Alwun House Monster’s Ball, Mosaic Theater, and has been supported by the Arizona Commission on the Arts.
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A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Olney Theatre); Ghost/Writer (Rep Stage); Young Playwrights Festival (Baltimore Center Stage); Afro-Caribbean Mixfest Short Plays (Atlantic Theatre Company); Dance of Memories (The Theatre Offensive); Kill Move Paradise (Rep Stage); Klytmnestra: An Epic Slam Poem (Theater Alliance); Othello in Othello (Taffety Punk Theatre Company); Actor in Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992 (Rep Stage); Hester in In the Blood (TheHegira Theatre) Elizabeth Keckley in History on Foot (Ford's Theatre, recipient of the Helen Hayes, The Washington Post Award). Ms. Drakes is a proud member of Actors' Equity Association and the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society. She received her MFA from The Catholic University of America and is an Artist of the Spirit certified Life, Energetic and Spiritual Coach.

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