1. Heather Raffo's father is Iraqi, born in Mosul but lived in Baghdad.
15 Facts About Heather Raffo
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Heather Raffo was a civil engineer and her mother is American.
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Heather Raffo visited Iraqi family in Damascus and Dubai in 2006.
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Heather Raffo had flown in and her family drove since it was not safe to travel into Iraq at the time.
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Heather Raffo is most famous for her notable role in the one-woman play 9 Parts of Desire.
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Heather Raffo took a photo of the painting, returned to America and devised a way of replicating the painting into a play.
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Heather Raffo has spoken to the National Press Club, as well as featuring in O: The Oprah Magazine as part of her "Aha Moment".
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Heather Raffo has been approached by International press about doing stories on her show, but she refused as she did not want to draw attention to her family in Iraq, as it could lead to dangerous circumstances.
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Heather Raffo is one of the six participating writers for the play The Middle East, In Pieces, a play which displays the current developments in the Middle East and addresses the conflicts in Lebanon, Israel and Iraq.
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Heather Raffo's other acting credits include, playing Sarah Woodruff in the world premiere of The French Lieutenant's Woman performed at the Fulton Opera House.
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Heather Raffo has performed her plays at Off Broadway in New York, Off West-End in London, at the Kennedy Center, at the US-Islamic World Forum and at dozens of large performance venues nationally as well as hundreds of universities across the country.
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Heather Raffo has performed in the play In Darfur by Winter Miller at New Yorks Public Theatre, revealing the depth of the crisis in Darfur, Sudan.
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Heather Raffo wrote the libretto for Tobin Stokes' opera Fallujah, based on the Second Battle of Fallujah.
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Heather Raffo wrote Tomorrow Will Be Sunday: A New Theatrical Platform.
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Heather Raffo was interviewed by Pauline Homsi Vinson and explained her plays.