Amrikayee: The Dreamer Play

Amrikayee is the story of a close-knit family navigating post-pandemic, post-Trump America and at its heart

Amrikayee: The Dreamer Play

Amrikayee is the story of a close-knit family navigating post-pandemic, post-Trump America and at its heart, a son who wants to make his father proud. Faced with a spiritual dilemma, the ghost of Rumi, in translating Rumi for renowned southerner Coleman Larks, Ali retreats to his childhood home in DC. Ali needs to make a choice: does he keep his job and follow the path to being a commercially popular poet? Hold onto his artistic principles, stay broke, and take a stand? Or take over the family business? Amrikayee examines whether Rumi’s been whitewashed for hipsters if Drake rapping in Arabic is cultural appropriation, the cost of the American dream, and what it means to be the Iranian flavor of American.

Sina Pooresmaeil - Playwright, reading for Ali

Rory McGregor - Director

Other Casts: TBD

Sina Pooresmaeil is a New York City-based actor/writer hailing from Northern Virginia. Currently pursuing an MFA in Acting at Columbia University. Previous television credits, High Maintenance. Previous stage credits, Twelfth Night (Columbia University), Spin by Adam North, Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy (Wallis Studio Ensemble), and S.O.S (Wallis Studio Ensemble).