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She directed For The Love of Hip Hop, Pressed, co-directed the play BlackFace for Parker Productions, served as the Production Manager for Shakespeare N Harlem, and Spoils of War. When she was a young girl, Rashid aspired to become either an anthropologist, archeologist or a pediatrician. However, she was blessed with a natural affinity and aptitude for writing plays. Yet, she actively pursued and earned a Cultural Anthropology degree from the City University of New York while simultaneously satisfying her creative appetite. She was recently invited to present her play at the prestigious National Black Theatre Festival (NBTF) in North Carolina. She has her own playwriting workshop and has authored , produced and directed the powerful play Queens of Heart that was performed several times to a Standing-Room-Only audience at the world famous Nuyorican Poets Café. Her latest play, Greener Grasses…, is equally thought provoking and awe-inspiring. Rashid presents a refreshing viewpoint of slavery and shows the parallel between the present day and slavery times. Rashid’s creative genius, an excellent cast and superb stage direction by Passion, put it all together beautifully. At the recent staged reading of Greener Grasses... at the Drama Book Shop in New York City, a patron exclaimed “I don’t know who she is (Rashid), but tell her for me that out of all the readings that I went to that were in the series, her reading was the best!” Greener Grasses… was the final piece presented in the POTPOURRI Original Works by Black Women Playwrights presented at the Drama Book Shop during Women’s History Month.
She is currently working on a book which includes her memoirs and a collection of her poetry. Get up to date information about Sabura Rashid and Me and My Muse Productions at
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So, You Want To Be A… PLAYWRIGHT
By Sherry Taylor Gibson
Sabura Abdur-Rashid is a playwright, actress, production manager, director, artist, poet and songwriter. Born and raised in the South Bronx’s Patterson Housing projects, the dynamic and multi-talented Sabura wrote and starred in her first play at the age of 12. When she was a junior in high school, Sabura directed the Douglas Turner Ward play Day of Absence. “I was always told that I was going to be a writer. When I first learned how to write, people always told me… ‘when you grow up, you're going to be a writer.’ I just didn’t pay them any mind.” Through the years, she has written over a dozen plays. Sabura honed her playwriting, acting, performance arts, and directing skills at the Times Square Playwrights, Frank Silvera Writers Workshop, New Federal Theater Playwriting Workshop and the Harlem School of the Arts. This McNair Scholar also has extensive improvisational theatre training.
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