Kareem Fahmy is a NYC-based playwright, theatre director, and screenwriter from Sherbrooke, Quebec.
His plays American Fast (winner of the Woodward/Newman Award), Dodi & Diana, and A Distinct Society have been produced nationwide. Other plays include Riparian States, Fountains of Youth, Pareidolia, The In-Between, and an adaptation of the acclaimed novel The Yacoubian Building.
As a TV writer, he's been a finalist for the Sundance Episodic Lab, BlackList/Stowe Story Labs Fellowship, and the Austin Film Festival Episodic Competition. He was part of the 2021 cohort of the WarnerMedia Access Writers Program.
Commissions: Audible, Artists Repertory Theatre, Colt Coeur, Ensemble Studio Theatre/Sloan Foundation, Unicorn Theatre, inaugural recipient of The Next Forever Commission from The Civilians and Princeton University.
He’s received fellowships from Yaddo, MacDowell, Bogliasco Foundation, Sundance Theatre Lab, Hermitage Artists Retreat, Stratford Festival of Canada, Banff Playwrights Lab, The Old Globe, Oregon Shakespeare Festival (Phil Killian Fellow), New York State Council for the Arts, and was named a Rising Leader of Color by Theatre Communications Group.
Kareem has an MFA in Theatre Directing from Columbia University.www.kareemfahmy.com
Projects
American Fast
Basketball star Khady Salama is set to carry her team through the NCAA championships—until March Madness collides with Ramadan and she lies about fasting. When her mother makes the story public, Khady becomes an unwilling Muslim icon.
StagePlay
A Distinct Society
A historic library straddles the Vermont–Quebec border. When an Iranian father and daughter separated by the "Muslim ban" start meeting there, a librarian, a border agent, and a local teenager are drawn into the consequences.
StagePlay
Dodi & Diana
Convinced they're the "astrological doubles" of Diana and Dodi, a couple locks themselves in the Paris Ritz to await the crash's 25th anniversary. What they unearth there will alter the course of their marriage.
StagePlay
All Our Pretty Songs
A teen fugitive from Cairo's slums arrives in LA, reinvents himself as "Ezra," and claims to be the son of a dead rock legend—setting off a collision among everyone still entangled in the musician's legacy.
TV Pilot
Crocodiles
American journalist Duncan Hearn navigates Cairo's dangerous political landscape while discovering his teenage son may have participated in a brutal attack on a diplomat.
TV Pilot