Jamil Khoury
- Producer
- Writer
- Director
Jamil Khoury is a playwright, essayist, theatre producer and filmmaker.
He is the Founding Artistic Director of Chicago's Silk Road Rising.
Silk Road Rising produces plays and films that tell stories through
primarily Asian American and Middle Eastern American lenses. The
company is a pioneer in creating video art that captures theatrical
language and a theatrical aesthetic through a filmic lens and with a
cinematic sensibility. Khoury is currently (9/25/12) writing a new
feature film/docudrama called Mosque Alert which he is developing as
part of a first-of-its-kind, eight step, interactive, online, new play
development and civic engagement process. He conceived of and devised
two critically acclaimed cabarets Re-Spiced: A Silk Road Cabaret (2012)
and Silk Road Cabaret: Broadway Sings the Silk Road (2009). He also
conceived of and was a featured playwright in Silk Road's production of
The DNA Trail: A Genealogy of Short Plays about Ancestry, Identity, and
Utter Confusion (2010). Khoury's short play WASP: White Arab Slovak
Pole inspired the short video play both/and (2011) and the documentary
film Not Quite White: Arabs, Slavs, and the Contours of Contested
Whiteness (2012). His weight loss of over a hundred pounds, and
conversations with his personal fitness trainer, inspired the short
video play The Balancing Arab (2012). Khoury's play Precious Stones won
Gay Chicago Magazine's 2003 After Dark Award for Outstanding New Work
and has been performed in ten cities across the U.S. His play Fitna was
performed at University Theatre of The University of Chicago and his
play Azizati was performed at Café Voltaire.
Khoury holds a M.A. degree in Religious Studies from The University of Chicago Divinity School and a B.S. degree in International Relations from Georgetown University 's School of Foreign Service. He is a Kellogg Executive Scholar (Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University) and has been awarded a Certificate of Professional Achievement in Nonprofit Management. Khoury is the 2010 recipient of the 3Arts Artist Award for Playwriting.
Khoury holds a M.A. degree in Religious Studies from The University of Chicago Divinity School and a B.S. degree in International Relations from Georgetown University 's School of Foreign Service. He is a Kellogg Executive Scholar (Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University) and has been awarded a Certificate of Professional Achievement in Nonprofit Management. Khoury is the 2010 recipient of the 3Arts Artist Award for Playwriting.
