Saheem Ali

Saheem is a proud immigrant from Kenya, currently serving as the Associate Artistic Director/Resident Director of New York’s Public Theater. He is a Tony Award nominee for Buena Vista Social Club and Fat Ham, the latter of which also earned the Joe A. Callaway award, Drama Desk and Lucille Lortel nominations. He is the recipient of an Obie Award for Sustained Excellence in Directing. His production of Merry Wives (The Public) was recorded for PBS Great Performances and was the subject of the HBO documentary Reopening Night. Other productions include Twelfth Night, Goddess and Good Bones (The Public Theater), Nollywood Dreams (MCC), Fires in the Mirror (Signature Theatre), The Rolling Stone (Lincoln Center Theater), Passage (Soho Rep) and Sugar in Our Wounds (MTC). He is a Sir John Gielgud SDCF Fellow and a Shubert Fellow.