About This Show

New Dramatists Fellow (2022) Mashuq Mushtaq Deen presents this  hilarious and deeply moving story of conservative Muslim mother at her wits end, a Muslim father who likes to tell jokes, and a queer American woman trying to make a good impression on her Indian in-laws. In a story about family and love and the things we do to be together, one immigrant family must come to terms with a child who defies their most basic expectations of what it means to have a daughter… and one woman will redefine the limits of unconditional love.

Told entirely from the point of view of family and friends, this unique show compassionately brings to life the often ignored struggle that a family goes through when their child transitions from one gender to another.

Mashuq Mushtaq Deen is an award-winning, queer theater artist and a resident playwright at New Dramatists. His awards, grants and fellowships include: Helene Wurlitzer’s Chesley/Bumbalo Foundation Award, MacDowell Colony’s Arch an Bruce Brown Fellow (2015-16), New York Foundation for the Arts Fellow; Bogliasco Foundation Fellow (2016), New York Theatre Workshop 2050 Fellow; Public Theater’s Emerging Writers Group (2009), Page73 Interstate writing group (2014); James Baldwin Award, and many more.