both/and trades the shackles of “either/or” for a non-dualistic worldview. Khoury's semi-autobiographical video play explores and explodes the persistent strains between American and Arab, Arab American and gay, for-profit and not-for-profit, and assorted other “disputed territories.”
both/and was adapted from Jamil Khoury's stage play WASP: White Arab Slovak Pole, commissioned and produced in 2010 by Silk Road Theatre Project as part of The DNA Trail: A Genealogy of Short Plays about Ancestry, Identity, and Utter Confusion, directed by Steve Scott in association with the Goodman Theatre.
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Clayton Stamper as JAMIL
Khurram Mozaffar as ARAB MAN
David Chrzanowski as GAY MAN
Melissa Kong as TORMENTOR ONE
Joel Gross as TORMENTOR TWO
The Chicago Community Trust
First United Methodist Church at the Chicago Temple
October 17, 2011 | DePaul University, hosted at Silk Road Rising, Chicago, Illinois
October 4, 2012 | Columbia College Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
November 13, 2012 | Benedictine University, Lisle, Illinois
April 25, 2014 | Illinois State University, Normal, Illinois
May 20, 2014 | University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon
February 26, 2015 | Knox College, Galesburg, Illinois
October 30, 2019 | Siena College, Loudonville, New York