Yasmine Beverly Rana is the author of Another Spring and Other Plays, an anthology of five plays including the award-winning Another Spring and The Fallen (Seagull Books / University of Chicago Press, 2026). Her earlier collection, The War Zone Is My Bed and Other Plays, was published as part of the Seagull Books’s “In Performance Series.”
Her plays have been produced internationally at theaters including Ryan Repertory Company; the Women’s Work Festival in Newfoundland, Canada (Icarus and Amina); Mile Square Theatre; Writers Theatre of New Jersey; the Khan Theatre in Jerusalem (After Rome); the International Human Rights Arts Festival at The Wild Project (Leena and Rose at the Barre); Luna Stage (At the Barre); Tara Arts in London (Amanda); and the National School of Drama in New Delhi (The War Zone Is My Bed).
Yasmine’s work has been developed and presented at The Looking Glass Theatre, Nora’s Playhouse (founding member), T. Schreiber Studio Theatre (Terry Schreiber, director), The Jewel Box Theater in Los Angeles, La MaMa Experimental Theatre (George Ferencz, director), New Stages Performing Arts Center in the Berkshires, and Playwrights Theatre of New Jersey.
Honors include a New Jersey State Council on the Arts Playwriting Fellowship (Another Spring), the TRANSITional Art Project Award, a Walter E. Dakin Fellowship in Playwriting (Blood Sky), and recognition as a finalist for the Francesca Primus Prize (The War Zone Is My Bed).
Yasmine’s writing has appeared in numerous publications including The Alabama Literary Review, Blackbird, The Contemporary European Idea, The Kenyon Review, Lilith, TDR The Drama Review, The Journal of the Pirandello Society as well as in the anthologies The Best Contemporary Monologues, The Best Stage Scenes, and The Best Men’s and Women’s Monologues (Smith & Kraus; Applause Books).
Rana has been recognized by Glamour Magazine and Tommy Hilfiger as an Outstanding Woman and was featured on the cover of 201 Magazine’s Arts Issue.
In addition to her work as a playwright, Yasmine is an educator and drama therapist who has worked internationally in Bosnia, the Republic of Georgia, and Switzerland.
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