Kareem Fahmy, Director: Hailing from Sherbrooke, Quebec, Kareem Fahmy has directed nearly twenty productions in the U.S. and Canada. Montreal directing credits include the Canadian premieres of Naomi Iizuka’s Language of Angels and Suzan-Lori Parks’ Venus, Patrick Marber’s Closer, and Constance Congdon’s Tales of the Lost Formicans. In New York: Michael Ondaatje’s The Collected Works of Billy the Kid (The Theatre of the Riverside Church), Judith Thompson’s Lion in the Streets (Abingdon Theater), Sam Shepard’s Curse of the Starving Class and Bertolt Brecht’s Drums in the Night (Schapiro Theater), The Way To Begin (Horace Mann Theater), and Anton Chekhov’s On the Harmful Effects of Tobacco (Schapiro Studio). Kareem is the founder and Artistic Director of The Alternate Theatre, a company which has a mission to bring the best of contemporary Canadian drama to New York City audiences. Kareem is a graduate of Columbia University’s MFA Directing program where he studied under Anne Bogart. (www.kareem.alternatetheatre.com)