Heather is the writer and performer of Nine Parts of Desire, a solo play about the lives of Iraqi women, which is in its eighth, sold-out month Off-Broadway at Manhattan Ensemble Theater. Ms. Raffo won a Special Commendation from the 2005 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize Committee for Nine Parts, and is a recipient of the 2005 Marian Seldes/Garson Kanin Fellowship from the Theater Hall of Fame. Nine Parts will travel to the Geffen Theatre in Los Angeles in September 2005, followed by a national tour which will include San Francisco, Seattle, Chicago, Philadelphia and Washington, D.C. The play will be published this autumn by Northwestern University Press, and will be anthologized in a publication featuring Arab-American women writers in early 2006. Heather first performed Nine Parts of Desire in August 2003 at the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh. It later moved to the Bush Theatre in London’s Off-West End where critics hailed it as one of the five best plays in London in late 2003. Nine Parts was then developed and performed as a reading at The Public Theatre as part of its “New Work Now!” festival in Spring 2004. Ms. Raffo’s recent acting credits include: Sarah Woodruff in the world premiere of The French Lieutenant’s Woman at the Fulton Opera House. Off-Broadway, she appeared in Over The River and Through the Woods, as well as the Off Broadway/National Tour of Macbeth (Lady Macbeth), The Merry Wives of Windsor (Mistress Page) and The Rivals, all with The Acting Company. Regionally she’s appeared in Othello (dir. Jack O’Brien), Romeo and Juliet (dir. Daniel Sullivan), As You Like It (dir. Stephen Wadsworth), Macbeth (dir. Nicholas Martin), and Comedy of Errors (dir. John Rando), all with The Old Globe Theatre in San Diego.

	Production	Theatre	Opened	Credit
1	Munich Medea: Happy Family	McGinn-Cazale Theatre	02/11/2024	Alice
2	Noura	Playwrights Horizons	12/10/2018	Noura
3	The Profane	Playwrights Horizons/ Peter Jay Sharp Theater	04/09/2017	Naja
4	Food and Fadwa	New York Theatre Workshop	06/07/2012	Hayat Johnson
5	Palace of the End	Playwrights Horizons/ Peter Jay Sharp Theater	06/23/2008	Nehrjas Al Saffarh
6	Nine Parts of Desire	Manhattan Ensemble Theatre	10/09/2004	N/A
7	Over the River and Through the Woods	John Houseman Theatre	10/05/1998	Caitlin O'Hare	REPLACEMENT

	Production	Theatre	Opened	Credit
1	Noura	Playwrights Horizons	12/10/2018	Playwright
2	Nine Parts of Desire	Manhattan Ensemble Theatre	10/09/2004	Playwright

		Award	Production	Function
1	NOMINATED	2009 Drama League Award, Distinguished Performance	Palace of the End	Actor
2	WON	2005 Lucille Lortel Award, Outstanding Solo Show	Nine Parts of Desire	Actor
			Nine Parts of Desire	Playwright
3	NOMINATED	2005 Outer Critics Circle Award, Outstanding Solo Performance	Nine Parts of Desire	Actor