DIRTY PAKI LINGERIE 
Written & Performed by Aizzah Fatima
Directed by Erica Gould
Dramaturgy by Cobina Gillitt
Stage Manager Brandon Stock

REVIEWS/AWARDS:

Sold out shows NYC, London, UK tour, Toronto, Turkmanistan, Pakistan & Edinburgh Fringe.

NYIT - Outstanding Solo Performance nomination

MITF - Best Actress, Best Production, Best Sound Design nominations

DESCRIPTION:
Set in post 9/11 America, Dirty Paki Lingerie depicts the stories of six Pakistani-­American Muslim women ranging in age from a six year old girl to a sixty-­five year old woman. The play transcends boundaries of culture, religion, and gender, moving and entertaining audiences with its unique and universal appeal. A rich, sexy, and infectiously entertaining mosaic of the sublime, the comic, the poetic, and the political. Cross-­cultural sparks fly and preconceptions about Muslim women are hilariously shattered in the show The Wall Street Journal says “Breaks down stereotypes of Muslim women in America” and that reviewers call a “must-­-see” production. Dirty Paki Lingerie has played to sold-­-out houses in NYC, London, Toronto , Turkmenistan, Pakistan, and Edinburgh Fringe Festival. In 2014, it was selected to be the first American play to represent the United States at the International Theater Festival of Turkmenistan. 

AIZZAH FATIMA 

Select acting theatre credits: Romeo & Juliet (Hypokrit Theatre Company), Half Hearted (Cherry Lane Theatre), #serials@theflea (The Flea Theater), Play by Play Rendezvous (Stageworks Hudson), Circumcaedere (LABrynth Ensemble), Seven (Martin E. Segal Theatre Center, Hostos Cultural Arts Center). TV credits: “The Good Wife” (CBS), “Patrice O’Neil’s Guide to White People” (Comedy Central), and “Mata‑e‑jaan” (HUM TV). She has performed at Upright Citizen'ʹs Brigade, and in sketches for collegehumor.com. Her short film “Stuff” in which she starred along with Annette O’Toole won the best comedy award (Asians on Film). She is currently working on a feature film based on characters from Dirty Paki Lingerie with award winning director Iman Zawahry.

ERICA GOULD
Erica Gould has directed the world premieres of Neil LaBute'ʹs plays autobahn and Stand Up (with Mos Def) and SpeakEasy by Rajiv Joseph, Theresa Rebeck. others (Joe'ʹs Pub/Public Theater); the US premieres of Me Cago en Dios by Inigo Ramirez de Haro (La MaMa), and Nobody'ʹs Girl by Rick Viede (NJ Rep); and Dirty Paki Lingerie. As director/choreographer: Max and the Truffle Pig (NYMF), City of Angels (Buffalo), Kander & Ebb'ʹs Curtains(SDC Guest Artist Initiative); director/fight choreographer: Troilus and Cressida (NY Stage & Film), The Rover (Bank Street Theatre), Pericles (NJ Shakespeare), As You Like It (Shakespeare Theatre ACA), her adaptation of The Beggar'ʹs Opera; writer/adaptor/director: the music-°©‐‑theatre piece More Between Heaven and Earth (w/ Melissa Errico, Kathleen Chalfant, Campbell Scott, Matthew Modine),The Heirs of Tantalus, Exodus: Dreams of the Promised Land w/ Reg E. Cathey, and Battalia (SalonSanctuary/The Fire Dept). Teaching: Yale, NYU, Fordham, Pace, Bard, NYCDA, O'ʹNeill National Theatre Institute.