When Dina and Yusef learn of their estranged father’s death, they step in and bury a man they never knew. Will brother and sister face their truths once family secrets come to light? Inspired by true stories of first-generation Americans, Brilliant Mind takes a hard look at generational trauma, the struggle between self and family, and the weight of carrying a legacy. It’s an excavation of the politics of gender in immigrant communities and the challenges ever present between tradition and culture. This is a story of hope, about what gets lost in translation, and what happens when we dare to love unconditionally. 

In this extraordinary live and interactive digital experience, explore the family ties that bond and break us, the healing that comes through death, and the acceptance that our parents do the best they can—the rest is up to us.

Note to patrons: Brilliant Mind is a unique interactive show. Once you purchase a ticket, you will experience the show via a different website, https://www.brilliantmindshow.com/live-show. (You will receive complete instructions from the MTC Box Office prior to your performance.) We recommend you go to the site 20 minutes before your performance. There you will find many tips and tricks for maximizing your enjoyment of Brilliant Mind. For the optimum experience, plan to watch on a computer desktop, laptop, or Windows Surface; an iPad will not work. We recommend Chrome as your internet browser. You can connect to Airplay on your Smart TV, and you can opt in for text messaging using your mobile phone. Further instructions emailed to ticket holders in advance and on the day of the performance.

Originating Live & Interactive Digital Production with Storykrapht

About Storykrapht

We are Storykrapht, an international production company disrupting live theatre in digital landscapes. Our projects seek to illuminate the human experience. We’re curious about experiments that blur the line between performer and performance, spectator and spectacle. Born in 2020 out of a need to reimagine live theatre in digital landscapes, our projects infuse live performance, interactivity, and film to create shows that are impactful, experiential, and socially conscious. Storykrapht is a women-led artistic partnership of Denmo Ibrahim and Marti Wigder Grimminck. We work internationally to experiment in digital byte-sized encounters and feature-length investigations of the now. www.storykrapht.com

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  • Denmo Ibrahim

    Denmo Ibrahim

    Dina

    Denmo is an award-winning actor and writer based in Brooklyn and San Francisco. Regional credits include Noura (Marin Theatre Company), The Good Book (Berkeley Rep), The Who & The What (Marin Theatre Company), A Thousand Splendid Suns (Seattle Rep, The Old Globe, American Conservatory Theater, Theatre Calgary), and Much Ado About Nothing (California Shakespeare Theatre). She received a San Francisco Bay Area Critics Circle (SFBATCC) Award for Best Featured Actress in The Good Book, Theatre Bay Area Award for Best Featured Actress in I Call My Brothers (Crowded Fire) and Best Original Script and Outstanding Solo Performance for BABA (Alter Theater). Denmo holds an MFA in Lecoq-based Actor-Created Physical Theater from Naropa University and a BFA in Acting from Boston University.

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  • Ramiz Monsef

    Ramiz Monsef

    Yusef

    Ramiz is a Los Angeles based actor and writer. Regionally he has appeared in EurydiceArabian NightsFete de la Nuit (Berkeley Rep), The Time of Your LifeThe Unfortunates (ACT), Eurydice (Yale Rep), Chad DeityGlory of the World (Seattle Rep, Actors Theatre of Louisville), Archduke (The Mark Taper Forum), Vicuna (The Kirk Douglas), Guards at the TajMysterious Circumstances (The Geffen Playhouse), and seven seasons at The Oregon Shakespeare Festival where he premiered the musical he co-wrote, The Unfortunates. New York credits include Eurydice (SecondStage), Betrayed (The Culture Project), and All that I Will Ever Be (New York Theatre Workshop). On TV you may have seen Ramiz on: NCISTraining DaySWATSEAL TeamKiddingShamelessModern FamilyYoung Sheldon, and Comedy Central’s The Watchlist. He also is in the film Synchronic. As a writer, Ramiz is a member of the 2019 Geffen Writers Room, and is currently workshopping his newestshow, The Ants, at the Ojai Playwrights Conference.

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  • Kal Naga, AKA Khaled Abol Naga

    Kal Naga, AKA Khaled Abol Naga

    Samir

    Kal Naga is a multi-award-winning actor, film producer and director from Egypt, with a body of work extending to the United States, European Union, United Kingdom, Australia, Africa, and Asia. Based in California since 2017, Kal’s theater credits comprise numerous plays and musicals, including the role of Rafa’a in Noura at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, director of Drowning in Cairo in New Threads at Golden Thread Productions in San Francisco, White Rabbit, Red Rabbit at the Downtown Contemporary Arts Festival in Cairo (D-CAF), director and creator of Oliver! In Arabic at the Royal Cultural Center in Jordan, and the BuSSy Monologues 2010 centering taboo but true stories of young women and men from Egypt. Film credits include more than 26 international feature films, including Miss Fisher and the Crypt of Tears (Australia), Out of the Ordinary; Eyes of a Thief (Palestine); From A to B (UAE); Décor; Villa 69; MicrophoneHeliopolisOne-ZeroAgamistaNone but That!Game of LoveCivic Duty (USA); Harb AtaliaSleepless Nights; and A Citizen, an Informant and a Thief. TV credits include “Messiah” (Netflix), “Vikings” (History), “The Last Post” (BBC), and “Tyrant” (FX). In 2014, Kal set a historical record for winning all Best Actor Awards in Egypt for his roles in Eyes of a Thief and Villa 69, including the Silver Pyramid for Best Actor Award (Cairo International Film Festival); Horus Best Actor Award (Egyptian National Film Festival); and Best Actor Awards from Film Society Festival for Egyptian Cinema and Egyptian Catholic Center for Cinema Festival. Others include Best Actor Award (Alexandria International Film Festival) and Best Actor Award (Paris Biennale of Arab Cinema). An advocate for freedom and justice in his home country of Egypt, Kal served as a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador in Egypt from 2007 to 2015 and played a pivotal role in supporting the Egyptian Revolution of Jan 25, 2011. Instagram and Twitter: @kalnaga www.kalnaga.com.

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  • Torange Yeghiazarian

    Torange Yeghiazarian

    Hala

    Torange Yeghiazarian is the Founding Artistic Director of Golden Thread Productions, the first American theatre company focused on the Middle East where she launched such visionary programs as ReOrient Festival and Forum, New Threads staged reading series, Fairytale Players youth outreach program, and What do the Women Say? showcasing the work of Middle Eastern women artists, and timely initiatives such as Islam 101 to create dynamic new work celebrating Islamic art and philosophy, and Project Alo? international collaboration. In her capacity as artistic director, Torange co-authored the seminal papers, “Middle Eastern Theatre Artists’ Bill of Rights” and “Dear Producers,” and helped launch the Middle East North African Theater Makers Alliance (MENATMA), the first national organization advocating for the MENA theater community. A playwright, director, and translator, Torange translated a number of contemporary plays from Iran including A Moment of Silence by Mohammad Yaghoubi (winner of Best Play at Toronto Fringe) and The Language of Wild Berries by Naghmeh Samini. Her translation and stage adaptation of Nizami’s “Leyla & Majnun” is published on Gleeditions.com. She has been published in The Drama Review, American Theatre Magazine, Amerasia Journal, and contributed to Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures and Cambridge World Encyclopedia of Stage Actors. Torange received a Gerbode-Hewlett Playwright Commission Award for Isfahan Blues, a co-production with African American Shakespeare Company, and a commission from the Islamic Cultural Center of Northern California to write and direct The Fifth String: Ziryab’s Passage to Cordoba. Her short play, Call Me Mehdi, is included in Salaam. Peace: An Anthology of Middle Eastern-American Drama, TCG, 2009. Torange has been recognized by Theatre Bay Area and is one of Theatre Communication Group’s Legacy Leaders of Color. Born in Iran and of Armenian heritage, Torange holds a Master’s degree in Theatre Arts from San Francisco State University.

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Creative Team

  • Denmo Ibrahim

    Creator & Writer

    Denmo is a first-generation Egyptian-American actor, playwright, and entrepreneur. A Sundance Theatre Lab Finalist, the San Francisco Chronicle called her “a tower of strength in the Bay Area theatre scene.” Regional credits include Berkeley Repertory, American Conservatory of Theatre, The Old Globe, Seattle Rep, Marin Theatre Company, and California Shakespeare Theatre. Her devised work has toured international festivals in Egypt, France, and Germany. In the U.S., her work has been supported by New York Theatre Workshop, Under St. Marks, Playwrights’ Center, Noor Theatre, University of Oregon, Golden Thread Productions, EXIT Theater, Alter Theatre, and Zawaya. Her new children’s book Zaynab’s Night of Destiny commissioned by Commonwealth Theatre Center will be released as an audio immersive experience in August 2021. Denmo is the Artistic Director of Storykrapht and a proud member of Actors’ Equity Association, Dramatists Guild, and New Play Exchange. She is a founding artistic director of Mugwumpin, a resident artist of Golden Thread, a member of the steering committee of MENATMA (Middle Eastern Theater Makers Alliance), and the founder & CEO of Earthbody Day Spa and Omcali Sacred Skincare. Denmo holds an MFA in Lecoq-based Actor Created Physical Theater from Naropa University and a BFA in Acting from Boston University. Her next writing project is a ten-part historical drama with Audible. www.denmoibrahim.com

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  • Marti Wigder Grimminck

    Marti Wigder Grimminck

    Digital & Interactive Designer

    Marti’s approach to digital design and interactive technology stems from her roots in producing Broadway shows and live entertainment. She has produced international tours for Dame Edna, Barry Humphries: Back To My Roots and Burn The Floor, and originated large-scale events for Dreamworld, RMIT University at Telstra Stadium, Sydney Film Festival, IFP Gotham Awards, and Do Something, among others. Marti is the Founder/CEO of International Connector, a creative agency known for its digital engagement experiences working with companies such as Microsoft, Amazon, Mars, Virgin, Viasat. She designs audience-focused impact programs that promote youth empowerment, increase access to tech, and elevate women’s voices. Marti is the Executive Director of Storykrapht and holds an interdisciplinary MA from NYU Gallatin through Tisch School of the Arts, ITP, and Stern School of Business. She also holds a BFA in Directing/Acting from New York University, Tisch School of the Arts. She is a keynote speaker featured globally, a jazz singer and the host of the podcast disruptHers and a Senior Fellow for the Atlantic Council GeoTech Center.

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  • Kate Bergstrom

    Kate Bergstrom

    Director

    Kate Bergstrom is an NYC-based, CA-born Artistic Director, culture shaper, and multidisciplinary artist in theatre and video art/immersive narrative work. They are a passionate supporter of new work development of all kinds as a director, dramaturg, creative producer, and audio creator. Their work has been seen regionally at Trinity Repertory Company, Marin Theatre Company, Playwrights Center, Cleveland Play House, Curious Theatre Company,  Los Angeles Theatre Center with We The Women, Opera San Diego, Music Academy of the West, Redcat, LACMA, and more. In NYC, she has directed new work at Ars Nova, The Bushwick Starr, La Mama and Culture Hub, Rattlestick Theater, New Dramatists, Jack Dixon Place, Access Theatre, and more. They are a proud New Georges Affiliated Artist, Ojai Playwrights Conference Affiliated Artist, and member of the intermedia performance group, h0t club. Kate is also a critic at Rhode Island School of Design and currently a guest lecturer at UC Los Angeles and UC Santa Barbara. As Founding Artistic Director of On The Verge Festival, they develop, produce, and support new work and help develop strategic anti-racist action plans for a number of companies. Central Coast BroadwayWorld.com named them the 2016 Person to Watch + 2017 Best Director. Kate holds an MFA from Brown/Trinity Rep.

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  • Johanna Frank

    New Play Dramaturg

    Johanna Frank is a scholar of drama and literature. She teaches, studies, and writes about modern drama and contemporary performance, particularly through the lenses of feminist, queer, and critical race studies. She received grants from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, American Society for Theatre Research, Association for Theatre in Higher Education, and the Institute for Research on Women and Gender at the University of Michigan. She is recipient of the Educational Leadership Award and the Alumni Association Excellence in Mentoring Award from the University of Windsor. Johanna is Associate Professor at the University of Windsor in Ontario, Canada.

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  • Ahmed Ashour

    Ahmed Ashour

    Cultural Dramaturg

    Ahmed Ashour is a Bahrain-born, Egypt-grown theatre-maker, writer, and thinker. Brilliant Mind marks Ahmed’s first collaboration with Storykrapht as well as his (virtual) return to Marin Theatre Company after assistant directing last year’s production of Heather Raffo’s Noura. Ahmed is a recipient of the prestigious and highly-selective Crown Prince of Bahrain International Scholarship. His work focuses on creating space for members of the global majority community, especially Arab- and/or Muslim-identifying people, to navigate and intervene in the disciplinary/surveillance state. Select credits include Yussef El Guindi’s Back of the Throat, Lauren Gunderson’s Natural Shocks (Sock & Buskin), Elwood’s (2018 America Too Festival, Trinity Repertory Company), A Guide to Winning (La Fontaine Centre for Contemporary Art), and Pippin (Ensemble! Theatre). Ahmed also works in multidisciplinary art, most recently collaborating with several international artists on Shrimp Atonement (zFestival unAcademy). He received his BA in Theatre Arts and Performance Studies from Brown University, and currently is a freelancer in Bahrain and internationally.

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  • Gilbert Chamaa

    Gilbert Chamaa

    Story Contributor

    Gilbert Chamaa was born in Beirut, Lebanon to Joseph Chamaa, a revered violinist, and Jeannette Chamaa. His lifelong conversations with his father about religion, art, music, and philosophy were the foundations for his view of the world. Gilbert found an outlet in literature and majored in English at University of California at Berkeley with a focus on Shakespeare. Due to his multicultural background, Gilbert is fluent in Arabic, French, English, and Spanish, which brings a fresh and insightful understanding to his literary expression.

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  • Zeina Salame

    Zeina Salame

    Story Contributor

    Zeina Salame is a director, actor, educator, applied theatre practitioner, and a scholar. A few recent creative collaborations include work with Artists Repertory Theatre's Mercury Company, the Guthrie Theater's Level Nine with New Arab American Theater Works, and the National Institute for Directing and Ensemble Creation with Pangea World Theater and Art2Action. Zeina is also a co-founder and artistic team member of Florida-based theatre company, The 5 & Dime. Zeina holds a PhD in Theatre Arts from the University of Oregon. Her dissertation, "Carried In One Woman—Reflections on Arab American Female Solo Performance'' centers on themes of "home" and the creative value of embodied generational knowledge, heritage, and intersectionality in performance aesthetics. Some of her recent writing on theatre has been published on Howlround Theatre Commons, Etudes, Al Jadid, and in the Encyclopedia of Women & Islamic Cultures.

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  • Nihan Yesil

    Nihan Yesil

    Composer & Sound Designer

    Nihan Yesil is an award-winning composer, sound designer, and a multimedia artist for film and stage. She started studying classical music at an early age. After her M.M. in Composition (UMKC Conservatory of Music and Dance), she received her M.F.A. in Sound Design (UMKC Theatre). Her music has been performed in a number of venues, festivals, and artist residencies across the U.S. and Europe. Some of her latest work includes Noura (Marin Theatre Company), Kansas City:1924 (foley editor, Kansas City Actors Theatre, available on Spotify), and Turkish blockbuster Bizim İçin Şampiyon (available on Netflix). Nihan is also the co-founder Bonnob Productions, an endeavor that came to fruition during the pandemic as an offering for children. Bonnob produces audio stories that have an elaborate sound world in multiple languages. Nihan is very happy to be back at Marin Theatre Company for another exciting production.

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  • Maya Nazzal

    Maya Nazzal

    Costume Designer

    Maya is a Palestinian-American actor, producer, and stylist based in Los Angeles. Her work spans feature films, music videos, and regional theater productions. She was head of wardrobe for Plastico, an upcoming Venezuelan feature film. Favorite credits include performing in Marin Theatre Company’s production of Noura, assistant stylist to reggae singer Ziggy Marley, and associate producing the upcoming CNN documentary-series Jerusalem. She earned her BA in Theatre Arts from San Francisco State University and trained at the Stella Adler Studio of Acting.

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  • Matthew Boyd

    Matthew Boyd

    Cinematographer

    Matthew Boyd is an award winning cinematographer based in Oakland and Los Angeles credited with over 12 feature films, more than 30 short films 64 IMDb credits as well as TV and music video work. Boyd earned his BFA in Cinematography from the Academy of Art University in San Francisco. Boyd's recent work includes the dramatic thriller Mine 9, dir. Edward Mensore (Netflix) starring Terry Serpico and Mark Ashworth; Spaceman, dir. Brett Rapkin (Orion Pictures) starring Sterling K. Brown, Josh Duhamel, Ernie Hudson; The Mentor dir. Moez Solis, an Oakland-based indie; and Beautiful Something, dir. Joseph Graham, starring Colman Domingo which premiered at Frameline 39. Critically acclaimed films include Mine 9, winner of Best Feature Film: Drama at Cinequest; The Festival Grand Prize at the Arizona International Film Festival; and Best Feature Film: Thriller, Best Ensemble Cast and Best Director at the Bare Bones International Film Festival. Beautiful Something, The After War, The First Session, Strapped, and Pass the Salt, Please starring Seymour Cassel and Fionnula Flanagan.

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  • Corwin Evans

    Editor

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  • Christopher Morrison

    Christopher Morrison

    Narrative Designer

    Christopher Morrison is a multi-talented writer/director/actor who has worked on over 150 films, theatrical productions, virtual reality (VR), video-games, and immersive entertainments on three continents. His feature film The Bellwether was released in 2019. He has been commissioned for multiple feature-length screenplays, television pilots, and plays. He is a narrative designer and head writer for video games including Ary and the Secret of the Seasons. His VR branching narrative, The Werewolf Experience, is currently in production. Cirque du Soleil called him “a huge asset to the creative process.” His production company, Reality+, is based in the U.S. and Europe. www.Realityplus.org

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  • Nakissa Etemad

    Nakissa Etemad

    MTC Producer

    Nakissa is an Iranian American dramaturg, producer, and French translator specializing in new BIPOC plays and musicals for over 25 years. In addition to her role as Marin Theatre Company’s Associate Artistic Director, she is a Resident Artist of Golden Thread Productions, Regional VP Metro Bay Area for Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas (LMDA), and a member of MENA Theater Makers Alliance and the Anti-Racism Task Force of LMDA. Recent dramaturgy includes work with Yussef El Guindi on Hotter Than Egypt (2020 Colorado New Play Summit), Heather Raffo’s Noura (Marin Theatre Company/Golden Thread), Marcus Gardley’s Play on! commission of King Lear (Oregon Shakespeare Festival), and recent world premiere productions with Marcus Gardley, Lauren Yee, Marisela Treviño Orta, Margo Hall, and Torange Yeghiazarian. She is a frequent collaborator on Golden Thread’s ReOrient Festivals of Short Plays and Bay Area Playwrights Festivals, including plays by Betty Shamieh, Naomi Wallace, Niku Sharei, Katori Hall, and Dustin Chinn. Festival Director for the 5th Annual New America Playwrights Fest, featuring new plays by Lynn Nottage, Naomi Iizuka and Polly Pen (San Jose Rep). Former dramaturg and literary manager of The Wilma Theater, San Jose Rep, and San Diego Repertory Theatre and Exec. VP Freelance of LMDA. Recipient of the 2015 Elliott Hayes Award for Outstanding Achievement in Dramaturgy for The Lark’s four-city premieres of Gardley’s the road weeps, the well runs dry. M.F.A. in Dramaturgy, UC San Diego.

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  • Christina Hogan

    Stage Manager

    Christina (she/her/hers) is excited to return to Marin Theatre Company. Previously she has worked as the Assistant Director for The Catastrophist and Stage Manager at MTC on Mother of the MaidSkeleton Crew and The Wolves. Other Stage Management credits include GloriaTop Girls, Edward Albee’s Seascape, and Men on Boats at American Conservatory Theatre; In Old AgeThe Baltimore WaltzrunboyrunAnd I and Silence, and Any Given Day at Magic Theatre; Ripped and Selkie at Z Space; It Can’t Happen Here at Berkeley Repertory Theatre; and A Raisin in the Sun at California Shakespeare Theater. Hogan has a BA in theater arts from Saint Mary’s College of California. 

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  • Rachel Head

    Rachel Head

    Associate Producer

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  • Additional Artists and Staff

    Animation: Camille Cherchi

    Color Correction & Editing: Elizaveta Gorshkova

    Dialogue Editor: John Jenkins

    Digital & Interactive Assistant: Minjun Kim

    Film COVID Supervisor: Williams Stafford

    Film Production Advisor: Enoch Chan

    Film Production Assistant Swing: Marc Lenahan

    Film Script Supervisor: Mayou Roffe

    Film Sound Engineer: Miguel Pena

    Full Stack Interactive Programmer: Faouzi Ghodbane

    Full Stack Javascript Programmer: Amine Karoui 

    Full Stack Javascript Programmer: Fatma Karoui 

    Graphic Design: Sean O’Leary, Andy Hodge

    Interactive Mobile Programmer: Jaiden Grimminck 

    Research Assistants: Penelope Gould, Hanna Margulies and Ariella Wolfe

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Reviews

  • "[Brilliant Mind is] the kind of full-immersive experience that you get in some of the world’s most innovative museums, a category of art which is undergoing its own transformation. But it begs the question: what is core to theatre. MTC and Storykrapht say that live is the core, without which this would not be theatre. But the additional modalities of experience — cinema, interaction, plentiful access to words and images — enrich this production in ways that’s hard to match.

    The power of theatre resides in the presence of humans who you may not know before you enter the room, but who you know so much better after you leave. In the end, MTC — with Storykrapht, and play director Kate Bergstrom — has created a template for what a sustainable launch of a new play might look like.

    It is both restating and reimagining what business it’s in. That’s pretty big news in the theatre world. I expect more and more producers hear about it."

    — Forbes Magazine Read full review
  • "In Brilliant Mind, digital gadgetry actually does enhance storytelling in inventive ways that ought to continue and expand once theater fully reopens.

    Mill Valley theater wiz Denmo Ibrahim wrote the piece based on a recent real-life incident that’s ripe for dramatization: After her absentee father died, she and her brother went through his belongings only to discover a half-sibling Ibrahim never knew about.

    Audiences who log in to the show early… are encouraged to take a virtual tour of the home of Samir, who’s later revealed as the father figure in the show. Click on that option, and in comes an open floor plan rendered in 2000s-era graphics, a bit like the video game “The Sims.” You can move around and click on different objects to open them — a record player, a refrigerator, a book, a drawer — all of which puts you in the place of the mystified child who must sort through the home of the parent she barely knew any more. It also makes you start to care about characters before a show even starts.

    Equally successful is the show’s texting service, which you can sign up for before Brilliant Mind starts or in its first few minutes. If you do, you’ll get texts from Samir (Kal Naga, a.k.a. Khaled Abol Naga) throughout the play.

    Its structure offers promising tools for future theatrical expeditions."

    — San Francisco Chronicle Read full review
  • “Brilliant Mind revels in the digital realm. The story of Brilliant Mind is intriguing in its own right as it explores the lives of Yusef and Dina, first-generation Arab-Americans, and how their lives have been (are being) affected by the lives of their immigrant parents and how a family forms its identity through cultural roots, geography, secrets and the politics of history (and the history of politics).

    [Denmo] Ibrahim has long been a Bay Area actor of note, someone to rely on for depth, intelligence and emotional realism on stage. She and [Ramiz] Monsef are marvelous together as their scenes crackle with the fraught chemistry of siblings.

    So well acted and produced…a great deal to enjoy, savor and ponder.” 

    — Theaterdogs.net Read full review
  • “Marin Theatre Company and Storykrapht have created an avant-garde story form in both real time and on film, with an abundance of ingenious tech innovations. Brilliant Mind reminds us that who we are and what we become comes from family, culture, and nation. The whole [El Musri] family has a foot in two worlds, the culture they grew up in and America. The live and filmed sections show the immigrant mind precariously suspended between two conflicting cultures. The tech messages emphasize that split. Marti Grimminck’s tech innovations are ingenious. Director Kate Bergstrom keeps the complex tale focused on questions of culture and family.”

    — Theatrius.com Read full review
  • “Innovative…dramatic energy. Directed by Kate Bergsgtrom, the performances are nicely nuanced and natural, exuding the easy camaraderie and comfortable annoyance of family...all woven together in a compelling package with user-friendly digital and interactive design by [Marti] Grimminck. [Denmo] Ibrahim’s Dina and [Ramiz] Monsef’s Yusef...argue and bond over shared regrets and family traumas that they remember quite differently. Kal Naga plays [the father] Samir with compelling, thoughtful equanimity. Memories spill out in fragments. I was left with a lingering longing...”

    — Marin Independent Journal Read full review

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