![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ihsan directed Benpires by Shamsul Alam which received the Pulitzer Price Nomination in Theater. (La Familia) for eight years, ihsan's major theater credits include teaching prolonged workshops at the Bayview Correctional Facility for Women, the Spofford Home for Juveniles & at Riker's Island which culminated in a forty prison inner city tour. Against the Sun represents four years of research which unearthed the character Cherry Turner, wife of Nat & mother to their three children. Artistic Director & Founder of the Tribe Ensemble, a multi-ethnic theater repertory company based out of the Jamaica Arts Center for thirteen years, ishan's major writing & directing credits include the original production of Against the Sun, the Southampton Slave Revolt of 1831, which depicted the pivotal days leading to the revolt led by Nat Turner. A graduate of Bennington College in Vermont, a former member of the New York State Council on the Arts & Chair of the Theater Department of Talent Unlimited, the second largest performing arts High School in NYC, ishan's major teaching credits include training five Manhattan, three NYC & one third place National Shakespeare Champion as well as an Arts national finalist in theater. ![]()
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