Dalia is an Assyrian-American director and writer focusing on explosive theatricality and changing the narrative on Middle Eastern women.
Her Broadway credits include serving as the Associate Director of Sweeney Todd and as the Resident Director at Phantom of the Opera.
This last year, she wrote and directed her first half-hour comedy pilot, UNDERSTUDIES, and curated and directed the cultural concert, Omar Bashir, Back to My Assyrian Roots, in Salamanca, Spainat the University of Salamanca.
Her most recent new play development work has been seen at Lookingglass Theater, Shakespeare and Co., Wayward Artists Ensemble, San Francisco Playhouse, Dixon Place, Access Theatre, and heard on the Parsnip Ship Radio Theatre Podcast.
She is an alumnus of the Allen Lee Hughes Fellowship in Directing at Arena Stage, and before that, she assisted at Center Theatre Group and Cornerstone Theatre. She is also an alum of UC Irvine's Claire Trevor School of the Arts where she graduated with a B.A. in Drama and honors in directing.
She received a grant from the National New Play Network to write Edessa of Baghdad with composer Avi Amon.
She is a member of SDC and Associate Artistic Director at In the Margin Company.
Up next, Dalia is directing a production of Three Tall Persian Woman by Awni Abdi-Bahri at Shakespeare and Co. in Lennox, MA. and Iraq, But Funny by Atra Asdou at Lookingglass Theater in Chicago, IL.
