SEVAN is an immigrant Arab-South Asian actor-writer whose work has been developed and produced in New York and London. He is a two-time war refugee born and raised in the Middle East, enculturated in the American South. A 2026-2027 Folger Shakespeare Library Artistic Fellow and recipient of a 2027 Next Forever commission (The Civilians/Princeton), his recent work includes the world is hours (Syracuse University Drama) and I Am Not Mine (Marin Shakespeare's Seeds of Time Festival). He is a Core Writer at the Playwrights' Center, received a 2022 EST/Sloan Commission, and was a 2021 Orchard Project Performance Lab Fellow. Previous affiliations include Bush Theatre Emerging Writers Group, Public Theater Emerging Writers Group, and NAMT 33rd Festival of New Musicals.