Farah Tahir, a veteran stage actor, makes his STC debut as Othello. He has appeared in more than 20 films, including Escape Plan, Star Trek, and Iron Man. Playing opposite Tahir as his duplicitous right-hand man is New Zealand actor Jonno Roberts, known for his performances in the Tony Award® winning Broadway show Take Me Out and Tracey Letts ...

He went on to star in a variety of roles, such as Raza in Iron Man (2008), Captain Robau in Star Trek (2009), and President Patel in Elysium (2013). In 2016, he played the title role of Othello in a production by the Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington, D.C.

Jul 11, 2017 · Helmed by internationally acclaimed director Ron Daniels and starring screen actor Faran Tahir in the titular role, the production will run at Sidney Harman Hall (610 F St. NW) from August 15–27, offering more than 12,000 people the chance to see the play free of charge.

Mar 1, 2016 · Jonno Roberts’s coldly efficient Iago — a Shakespearean psychopath if there ever was one — stokes the doubts of Faran Tahir’s Othello in such an ingeniously insidious way that the embers of...

Mar 2, 2016 · Faran Tahir as Othello and Jonno Roberts as Iago in the Shakespeare Theatre Company’s production of Othello, directed by Ron Daniels. Photo by Scott Suchman

Aug 18, 2017 · Faran Tahir as Othello in the Shakespeare Theatre Company’s 2016 production of Othello (Photo: Scott Suchman) In 2016, when STC first staged the Othello currently running in its free-for-all festival, many people believed, incorrectly, that America had …

Mar 30, 2016 · Tahir's outstanding performance of Othello is Muslim inclusion into the Western fabric at its finest. His work is a huge turning point for the prominence of not just Pakistanis, but Muslims in the West in general.

Mar 3, 2016 · In an inspired turn that pays off, Daniels bucked the contemporary tradition of using black actors to play Othello and instead cast Pakistani-American Faran Tahir in the role, more-convincingly approximating the Moorish background of the Muslims of North Africa from where Othello most likely hails.

Faran Tahir, who played Othello himself, really excelled in his most intense scenes. There were a few moments, as he succumbed further and further into monstrosity due to Iago’s manipulation, where he legitimately frightened me.

Mar 2, 2016 · When director Ron Daniels and actor Faran Tahir brought the idea of mounting the Shakespeare Theater Company’s current production of Othello to artistic director Michael Kahn a year ago, the world was a different place. As Daniels articulates in his notes, the shift in the national and international conversation towards Islam as a faith and ...