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New York Arab-American Comedy Festival starts Nov 14th!
 The groundbreaking New York Arab-American Comedy Festival (NYAACF) will hold its 4th Annual Festival from November 14th-19th, 2006.
nigelparry.net has been a proud sponsor of the Festival since 2005. Nigel Parry undertakes photography, publicity support, and web/print design services for the Festival.
The 2006 event promises to provide entertainment that is funny, uniquely original and politically insightful. The Festival -- which has three components: Sketch Comedy Nights (comedic theatre), Stand-Up Comedy Nights, and a Short Comedic Film Night -- has served as a launch pad for emerging talent while providing a much-anticipated forum for the presentation of new works.
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| Design mockup of the poster for the coming Festival in November. |
Festival organizers vow that no topic is off-limits as the theater pieces comedically tackle such topics as the perception of Muslims in America, the Bush administration, an infomercial on "How to be a real American" and even an Arab Superhero.
This year's participants include Waleed Zuaiter (The Public Theater's Mother Courage and Stuff Happens), Leila Sbitani (Host of Nickelodeon's Hi-Jinks), from Los Angeles comedian Aron Kader (Axis of Evil comedy tour), Hend Ayoub (the new movie opening October 27 Death of an American President aka "D.O.A.P"), Festival co-founders Dean Obeidallah, a comedian who received rave reviews for his one man show I Come in Peace which premiered at the 2006 NY Fringe Festival and co-producer/co-star of Comedy Central's The Watch List, and Maysoon Zayid, comedian and actress, who has been featured on NBC's Nightly News, MTV, and As the World Turns.
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| Scheduled to reprise their roles again this year in Dean Obeidallah's "And now another word from our sponsors", Ramsey Faragallah as "Mustapha" and Waleed F. Zuaiter as "Marwan". (Photo: nigelparry.net) |
For more information, and to purchase tickets, visit arabcomedy.org
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