ABOUT: Forced to flee Iraq due to religious persecution during the 1941 "Farhud" pogrom, Valerie David's paternal Middle Eastern Jewish family built a new home in America. Their inspirational journey mirrors today's growing intolerance of race, religion and sexual orientation. This play is a story of a father and a daughter learning to love and accept their differences and how a father's tale of survival and perseverance shaped his daughter's future and who she is today.

AWARDS: For Baggage From BaghDAD: Becoming my father's daughter

• Selected as Writer in Residence for Live & In Color 2018


• Selected for The Broadway Bound Festival 2018


• Selected for The New Works Series Festival of Emerging Artists Company 2021


• Finalist for The New York Doric Wilson Award 2021


• Selected for The Stage 1 Theatre Project 2022