Liana Asim

Liana Asim (Mai Tamba) is a playwright/actor. She was last seen on stage as Marcus Lycus in the Stoneham Theatre production of A Funny Thing Happened On the Way to the Forum. She was also chosen as a 2015 BCA and Company One PlayLab Fellow. Her full-length plays include Bedfellows, The King of Love Is Dead, Slut Walk or A Play About Marilyn Monroe, The Hairy Scary (musical co-written w/J. Asim and Joshua Stephen Kartes.) Her work has been developed at BCA/Company One, Boston Theatre Marathon, Fresh Ink Theatre, Davenport Studios NYC, Playwright’s Platform and Emerson College in Boston, MA. She has studied performance art at Northwestern University and screenwriting and playwriting at Emerson College. She is the proud wife of author Jabari Asim, and mother to five brilliant children.