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denmo ibrahim

Denmo Ibrahim is an American writer, actor, and educator of Egyptian descent. Her plays include Arab Spring (Bay Area Playwrights Festival 2022) Kal & Dija Save the World (Civilians’ R&D Group, Findings Series 2022), the hybrid experience Brilliant Mind (Marin Theatre Company), BABA (Alter Theatre), Ecstasy / A Waterfable (Golden Thread), and The Day Naguib Mahfouz Was Stabbed In The Neck And Almost Died a.k.a. The Selkie Play (Finalist: NNPN’s Showcase of New Plays). 

Denmo’s recently released audio-immersive book, Zaynab’s Night of Destiny (Fons Vitae, Commonwealth Theatre Center) engaged thousands of elementary and middle school students in 2022. Her work has been selected for development and supported by The Ground Floor at Berkeley Rep (The Dream Fugue of May Ziyadeh), New York Theatre Workshop, Under St. Marks, Playwrights’ Center, Noor Theatre, University of Oregon, Theatre Bay Area and Golden Thread Productions. Her plays have toured internationally to festivals in Egypt, France, and Germany. Teaching credits include workshops at Loyac Academy of Performing Arts (Kuwait), Arab American National Museum, California Institute of Integral Studies, and The University of Oregon. Currently she's working on a ten part audio drama for Audible. 

Regional acting credits include Berkeley Repertory, American Conservatory Theater, The Old Globe, Seattle Rep, Marin Theatre Company, and Cal Shakes. Her devised work has toured international festivals in Egypt, France, and Germany. In the U.S., her work has been supported by New York Theatre Workshop, Under St. Marks, Playwrights’ Center, Noor Theatre, University of Oregon, Golden Thread Productions, EXIT Theater, Alter Theatre, and Zawaya. Denmo received an SFBATCC Award for “Best Featured Actress” in The Good Book (Berkeley Rep), and Nominations for “Best Principal Actress” in Noura (Marin Theatre Company) and Our Enemies: Scenes of Love & Combat (Golden Thread), and Theatre Bay Area Awards for “Best Featured Actress” in I Call My Brothers (Crowded Fire) and BABA (Alter Theatre) for “Outstanding Solo Performance”. She received a San Francisco Bay Area Critics Circle Award (SFBATCC) for “Best Original Script” for BABA and Rabbit Causes Dog at San Francisco Fringe Festival. 

Denmo is a proud member of Actors Equity Association, Dramatists Guild, and New Play Exchange. She is a founding artistic director of Mugwumpin, a resident artist of Golden Thread, a member of the steering committee of MENATMA (Middle Eastern Theatre Makers Alliance), and the founder & CEO of Earthbody Day Spa and Omcali Sacred Skincare. Denmo holds an MFA in Lecoq-based Actor Created Physical Theater from Naropa University and a BFA in Acting from Boston University. She lives in San Francisco and Brooklyn.