Resident Playwright
Fouad Teymour is a Chicago-based Egyptian American playwright. He is an associate artist of Silk Road Rising, and a board member for International Voices Project (IVP). The Jeff-recommended world premiere of his play Twice, Thrice, Frice… directed by Patrizia Acerra, was co-produced by Silk Road Rising and IVP. It was listed among Chicago Best Plays 2019 by Picture this Post. His play Blue Fish in A Tall Clear Vase, directed by Jason Smith, was produced at Three Cat Productions (2017) where he had previously collaborated on The Other Side of Christmas (2016), and Holiday Stories (2015), and where his play An Afternoon With My Mother (2015) was featured in the Chicago New Work Festival. Twice, Thrice, Frice… was part of the Crescent and Star Staged Reading Series at Silk Road Rising (August 2017), the New American Voices Series at Queens Theater, NY (October 2018), and a semi-finalist for the Bay Area Playwrights Festival BAPF 2018. He translated Ahmed Serag’s The Castle and The Sparrow from Arabic (Performed in IVP 2014. Published in 2015 by Dar Ibda’a in Egypt). Fouad is a former Network Member with Chicago Dramatists.


