Sylvia Khoury | |
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Education |
Columbia University (
BA) The New School ( MFA) Mount Sinai Medical Center ( MD) |
Notable awards |
Whiting Award (2021) Pulitzer Prize for Drama finalist (2022) |
Sylvia Khoury is an American writer and playwright. [1]
She was born in New York and has French and Lebanese ancestry. She was educated at Columbia University (BA) and The New School for Drama (MFA), [2] [3] and in 2021 gained an MD from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. [4]
Khoury was the recipient of the 2021 Whiting Award for drama. [5] Her play Selling Kabul is a 2022 Pulitzer Prize finalist for drama. [6] Her other plays include Power Strip, Against the Hillside and The Place Women Go. [4]