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About Me

dawn zahra started writing plays a long long time ago in a galaxy far, far away...
First came "Gwendolyn," then "Awakening."
So she decided to go to Purchase College to study drama. There, she wrote, directed and performed (and had a hell of a good time doing it!)...
"A Midcybernight's Dream" came in 1995 and "Psyche's Quest" was her 1998 brainchild...
She also did a ton of Shakespeare!
"The Tempest," (Iris/The Boatswain)
"The Taming of the Shrew" (Kate)
"The Merchant of Venice" (Ass't director)
and funky performance-art pieces based on: "Macbeth," "King Lear" and "Hamlet."
After graduating, she went on to do more shows:
"Under the Crescent Moon" (2000) & "Orb" (2000)
Then, she it was time for her to get her MFA in Musical Theatre Writing at
NYU's ~Tisch School of the Arts~
and put up "Little Crow" (written with Carmel Dean) 2001,
Poe's "Fall of the House of Usher" (Andrew Elsesser: composer) 2002 and
"Lily in the Forest" (music by Jonathan Portera) 2003
After that came "LongVania" (2004) & "Songs from the Nebula" (2005).
She also became a theatre critic for off-off-broadway (www.oobr.com), a contributing author for On Your Own Publications AND an English Professor!
In 2006 came "Awakening"
"College Bored" (May) and a couple of other eclectic/electric poetry pieces, mostly at Cheryl King's fabulously cozy theatre space: Stage Left Studios...
In 2007 came "BUMBLEBEE GHOSTALES,"
"poetical jasmine," and "Journey to the Underworld," and "her" which is to be performed at Mercer Community College October 19th.She's also right now getting her PhD (studying performance, myth & ritual) at Binghamton University--but don't fear--she's in the city a lot!See you there (hopefully) and much love to you all!
~may the gods shower many blessings of the muse's silver inspiration upon thee...
xox dawn zahra

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 11/15/2005
Band Members:

me, myself & i! (*and* various other collaborators including eric lipper (keyboard, guitar, bass & drums~he's phenomenal! ;), omar chowdarry (guitars & engineering), godwin saliba (bass, arranging), leo saliba (drums), ras moshe (baritone sax/flute), aaron compagna (vocals), dustin garlitz (tenor sax), danny mckay (engineering), daniel carter (saxes & woodwinds) byrne kly (upright bass) and charlie suh (saxes & woodwinds).
Influences: tori amos, danny elfman, loreena mckennitt, stephen schwartz, stephen sondheim, joni mitchell, bob dylan, judy collins, the renaissance, bach, ani difranco, stravinsky, thelonious monk, led zep, ella fitzgerald, syd barrett, nin, the beatles, kurt weill

THAT BLACK AND WHITE CAT

SARIJ

INSIDE DADDY'S BOX

670 NIGHTINGALE ROAD

MIDNIGHT
br MY BOYFRIEND'S POSSESSED BY THE DEVIL AGAIN (eric lipper on guitar)
Sounds Like: uhhh...you tell me; hopefully she's unique~!

Type of Label: None

My Blog

andromeda!

andromeda is coming, folks!look out for her...169 bar late may/early june(we'll see when i can book the gig ;)...
Posted by dawn zahra on Sun, 02 Mar 2008 08:54:00 PST

LIVE EARTH LAST NIGHT!

my friendz: live earth last day/night was simply amazing, amazing!!!!!There were so many amazing surprises & moments!it started off with a whole bunch of acts i didn't know, but they were great! lots ...
Posted by dawn zahra on Sun, 08 Jul 2007 09:59:00 PST

COME TO THE SHOW!!!!!

COME INSIDE THE SHOW'S ABOUT TO STARTGUARANTEED TO BLOW YOUR HEAD APARTREST ASSURED YOU'LL GET YOUR MONEY'S WORTHGREATEST SHOW IN HEAVEN, HELL AND EARTHYOU'VE GOT TO SEE THE SHOWIT'S A DYNAMOIT'S ROCK...
Posted by dawn zahra on Fri, 06 Jul 2007 07:54:00 PST

star trek meets nin??? no way!!!! ;)

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Posted by dawn zahra on Fri, 01 Jun 2007 06:57:00 PST

LOVE

LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE ...
Posted by dawn zahra on Wed, 23 May 2007 10:25:00 PST

today's poem.

you were an experiment to see how cruel i could be to myself.you see, i needed to summon The Prince of Darknessin order to slay my already assassined soul.(i always did love to be bound and gagged.)wh...
Posted by dawn zahra on Fri, 18 May 2007 05:25:00 PST

come one, come all!

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Posted by dawn zahra on Tue, 15 May 2007 08:18:00 PST

poetical jasmine!

Hello there! The following is a selection of some plays & poems that will be performed on the may 26th performance of "poetical jasmine!" it would be lovely to see you there, but if you can't make i...
Posted by dawn zahra on Tue, 08 May 2007 10:08:00 PST

The News of Wow.

So it's official: my ex-boyfriend is now officially in my sister's band.craziness.(let's hope that it will be coolness too!)
Posted by dawn zahra on Fri, 04 May 2007 10:36:00 PST

new lyrics for the new songs!

okay: so there are two new songs (soon to be three!) up and me, being the lyric freak that i am feel that it is incumbent to post the lyrics. i hope you enjoy!!!"Please"This is for the one I lovewho...
Posted by dawn zahra on Wed, 04 Apr 2007 07:16:00 PST