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Omer Abbas Salem- the brown Julia Roberts...
Actor and Playwright- Chicago, IL
news:
Abbas Salem was named Who's Got Next in Theater by Chicago Magazine (3/2023)
2022 winner of the 3Arts / SIF Fund at The Chicago Community Foundation Awardee in honor of Samuel G. Roberson Jr.
upcoming:
I will be teaching a playwriting workshop with Terry Guest as part of About Face Theatre's ReGeneration Studio. Writing for the Me in You- December 14 &18.
DePaul Theater School will continue developing my Cunningham Commission children's play: The Chronicles of the Kaleidoscope Visitors. It will be managed by Michelle Lopez Rios.
The Cunningham Commission press release is here.
I will be writing a new audio play for Audible Theater as part of their Emerging Playwright cohort.
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