THEATRE INSTRUCTION EXPERIENCE
Since 1989 Ms Humsi has given theatre and
acting workshops for children and youth in Syria, Japan, United Arab
Emirates, Lebanon, and Canada.
2004
Grade 8 Theatre instructor at
Beverly Heights Middle School,
Toronto, Canada
1995
Children ages 7-14
Theatre Instructor for the Abou
Dhabi Arab Children’s Festival,
Abou Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
1989
Mime Instructor for
children ages 7-11 at the French
Cultural Centre,
Damascus, Syria
PROFESSIONAL ACTING EXPERIENCE
Canada
2006 Math Teacher
and Others in Me… Here.
Me…Happy, by
Diana Manole, directed by Majdi Bou Matar, MT
Space Theatre Company, Kitchener, Ontario.
2005 Improvised in the collective show Motion X
Industria, MT Space Theatre Company, Kitchener, Ontario.
2003 One-woman
show, Woman … Women,
written and directed by Mohamed Karesly, The Canadian-Iraqi Society
and Syrian Mosaic Art Production, York Woods Theatre, Toronto,
Ontario.
2002 Mime Performance: Improvised at
the Mexican Day Festival at Harbourfront,
Toronto, Ontario.
2002 Performed Ursula in Much Ado About Nothing
by William Shakespeare, Directed by Mark Ingram, Rouge And Peasant
Theatre Company, Kingston, Ontario.
International
1983-1999
Actress and Mime Performer
· Performed for Syrian
professional theatres and Syrian Arab Television and Cinema.
· Played leading roles in
dozens of plays in Egypt, Tunisia, Algeria, India, France, Czech
Republic, Japan, USA, and other countries.
· Selected Acting credits:
Sada (Sada.. Sada, a musical for children by
Nada Humsi); Yasmeen (The Dawn and Twilight of a Girl
Named Yasmeen by Mohamed Karesly); Silvy (The Two Type
Writers by Eric Shisgal, directed by Mohamed Karesly); Hana, (The
Option by Nada Humsi); Maya and Others (It
Happened in Arkutsk by Alexey Arbuzov); Anies (Tot Family
by Istvan Orkeny); Dina (An interview in Buenosirus by
Hernich Porovich); King Lear, Lady Macbeth, the Little Prince (Thread
of Silver by Jawad Al-Asadi).
SELECTED AWARDS AND ACCOMPLISHMENTS
1981 Best Actress, Theatre Festival of Syrian
Universities, for her performance in A Journalist Interview
In Buenos Aires, written by Henrich Borovich, directed by Tawfiq
Al-Moazen.
1983 Best Actress, Carthage International Theatre
Festival, Tunis, Tunisia, for performance in Tot Family,
written by Istvan Orkeny, directed by Jawad Al-Asadi, The
Palestinian National Theatre Group.
1985 Best Performance, Carthage Theatre Festival,
Tunis, Tunisia for performance in Threads of Silver, written
and directed by Jawad Al Asadi, The Palestinian National Theatre
Group.
1988
First woman to write and perform a monodrama in Syria: The
Option, directed by Riad Ismat. The show toured Syria, Egypt,
Japan and the United States. Formal Recognitions from The Second
Theatre Festival of Homs City for this performance.
1991
Established a Drama Centre in Yamato-machi, Japan. Instructed
and performed Mime
1992 Best Performer, Toyama Theatre Festival,
Toyama, Japan, for performance in The Dawn And Twilight of a Girl
Named Yasmeen, written and directed by Mohamed Karesly, Mosaic
Art Production, Syria.
1993 Best Children Marionette Play, The International
Children Theatre Festival,
Tunis, Tunisia for Sada… Sada, written by
Nada Humsi, directed by Habiba Al-Jandoubi.
1996 Formal Recognitions from mayors of Yamato-machi and
Toka-machi, Japan for performances in The Dawn And Twilight of a
Girl Named Yasmeen and Meet with Japanese group. |
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