Lama El Homaïssi (she/her) is a Lebanese performer, writer and voiceover artist currently based in New York City where she is the Artist-In-Residence in the SHIM:NYC residency and is also a member of the Joe’s Pub Working Group 2022-2023.

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Lama began her career in entertainment working for years as a television writer in Lebanon, before pursing her MFA in Musical Theater at Boston Conservatory at Berklee ('19). 

 

While in Boston, Lama served as a research and translation assistant on Daniel and Patrick Lazour’s We Live in Cairo, a new musical directed by Obie award-winning director Taibi Magar that premiered at American Repertory Theater in 2019. She later went on to work as a Dramaturgy and Publications Assistant for A.R.T.’s 2019-2020 season and was involved as a storyteller and singer in several community engagement and education events in both Boston and New York City.

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Venues Lama has performed at include Club OBERON, Joe’s Pub, Berklee Performance Center, and Lincoln Center’s David Rubenstein Atrium and Stanley H. Kaplan Penthouse.

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Lama’s writing has also been featured in the Brooklyn Rail and in her essay on Storytelling as an Act of Survival published in HowlRound Theatre Commons.

* Ryder Farm

* Less about We Live in Cairo, more about new works, writing and performing, interdisciplinary etc, make it quirky and fun.

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