Overview
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.
Creative Team
Written by
- Jamil Khoury
Directed by
- J. Paul Preseault
Executive Producer
- Malik Gillani
Assistant Director
- Alicia Healy
Director of Photography
- Stephen Combs
Editor/Script Supervisor
- Ashley Kennedy
Set Designer
- Chelsea Warren
Costume Designer
- Amy Gabbert
Makeup and Hair
- Michelle DiSalvo
Production Manager/Props
- Jesse Gaffney
Location Sound Mixers
- Stephen Jacobs
- James Thompson
Assistant Camera
- Brittnee Dowdy
Gaffer
- Alex Buholzer
Grips
- A.J. Michael
- Eric Reynolds
- Tawanda Trask
Composer
- Mikhail Fiksel
Technical Director
- Jason Pikscher
Production Assistant
- Anothai Kawekaen
Facilities & Craft Services Coordinator
- Amanda Vevers
Cast
Clayton Stamper as JAMIL
Khurram Mozaffar as ARAB MAN
David Chrzanowski as GAY MAN
Melissa Kong as TORMENTOR ONE
Joel Gross as TORMENTOR TWO
Script
Essays & Commentary
Special Thanks
The Chicago Community Trust
First United Methodist Church at the Chicago Temple
Screening History
- 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