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 Naseem Etemad and Amani Dorn*

Veils by Tom Coash

Directed by Vickie Rozell

The Pear Theatre

Cast: Amani Dorn* and Naseem Etemad

Photos by Vickie Rozell and Pear Theatrea


A play that looks at veiling within the Muslim religion through the eyes of of two college-aged women spending a year as roommates at a university in Egypt. It also addresses stereotypes between the United States and the Middle East and the difficulties in reaching across the divide between such different cultures and the meaning of freedom.

Naseem Etemad and Amani Dorn*

“Director Vickie Rozell keeps the action moving in a high energy presentation.”—A Good Reed





Naseem Etemad

"I love working with Vickie. She has directed several of my plays, most recently a terrific production of Veils. From a playwrights¹s point of view, she¹s a delight to work with. She does her homework, asks very insightful questions, listens to the answers, and has a keen sense of both detail and the whole picture. She also has a great way with actors and consistently gets wonderful performances from her casts. It would make me very happy to work with Vickie again and again."--Playwright Tom Coash

Amani Dorn* and Naseem Etemad

Naseem Etemad and Amani Dorn*

*Member Actor's Equity

“Clearly aiding and enhancing their portrayals is the astute, compassionate, and completely effective direction by Vickie Rozell. In the play's many electrically charged scenes, it would be easy for young actors to over-play the emotions, to over-do the flare-ups, or to turn the focus more on them and away from the messages and subjects they are there to convey. It is evident to me that a director's coaching and vision has guided this production in every respect, allowing the two young actors to blossom in their parts and to sell their characters as two very real human beings in search of who they are, what they believe.”—Talkin’ Broadway.com


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