Suehyla El-Attar Young

Suehyla El-Attar is an award-winning. Atlanta-based actor/writer. She's a first-generation Egyptian born in America; specifically Starkville, Mississippi. She's spent time in Iraq, Kuwait, Israel, The West Bank, The Netherlands, and Egypt throughout her life... and, of course, The United States. As a professional stage actress since 2004, El-Attar works mainly in Atlanta with numerous companies: The Alliance Theatre, Horizon Theatre Company, Synchronicity Theatre, 7Stages, Dads Garage, Georgia Ensemble, Essential Theatre, PushPush Theater, and the late Theatre in the Square. In 2005, The Women+War Project, funded by the NEA and produced by Synchronicity Theatre (then known as Synchronicity Performance Group), invited her as a collaborator. Delving into research, she and the group of artists (designers, actors, writers) interviewed over 40 women from all over the world, affected by war in some way: Spies, refugees, politicians, peace activists, war journalists, wives of soldiers, sist