Tina Fakhrid-Deen

About

Tina Fakhrid-Deen is a playwright, author, and educator. She is the author of Let’s Get This Straight: The Ultimate Handbook for Youth with LGBTQ Parents. Her play, Powerless Gods, was developed and produced at Oakton Community College. Powerless Gods was a semi-finalist for the Bay Area Playwriting Festival (2019) and O’Neill Playwriting Conference (2016/2018). Tina’s play, Dandelions, was commissioned for Theatre on the Lake - In the Works, and received a developmental production as part of their 2020 season. Her play, Pulled Punches, was developed through the Women’s Theatre Alliance of Chicago in 2019 and the Ma’at Production Association of African Centered Theatre (MPAACT). In April 2022, the world premiere of Pulled Punches was produced by MPAACT at the Greenhouse Theater. In 2021, Tina wrote and directed her first children’s podcast play, Sankofa: A Journey into Bronzeville’s Poppin’ Past for the Chicago Children’s Theatre and the Chicago Park District. IN 2021, she was also commissioned to write a short play, Snow Black, for Rivendell Theater’s 8:46 Breathing Room Festival. Tina is a 2020 MacDowell Fellow, 2018 Kimbilio Fellow, and VONA Fellow in Fiction and Playwriting (2011/2017). She is also the recipient of Oakton Community College’s 2018 Ray Hartstein Award for Outstanding Professional Excellence in Teaching, where she teaches writing and literature. Tina’s essays, cultural commentary, and poetry have been published in anthologies and media outlets such as Without A Net: The Female Experience of Growing Up Working Class, Sometimes Rhythm, Sometimes Blues: Young African-Americans on Love, Relationships, Sex, and the Search for Mr. Right, Homegirls Make Some Noise: Hip-Hop Feminism Anthology, Families Like Mine: Children of Gay Parents Tell It Like It Is, Jet Magazine, Tidal Basin Review, Scott Foresman, The Root, NPR: Eight-Forty-Eight, News One/Amtrak, and The Laura Berman Show on Oprah Radio.

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