Sahar Ishtiaque Ullah is an award-winning educator, artist, and scholar. 

 

Committed to teaching in all kinds of spaces, Sahar earned her Ph.D. at Columbia University where she received the Presidential Teaching Award. Sahar has also facilitated workshops and taught literature courses at Rikers Island through the Justice-in-Education Initiative. She currently teaches English Literature and Writing at Phillips Exeter Academy.

 

For over a decade, her play Hijabi Monologues toured across the United States and internationally. Her work has been reviewed by the BBC, The Stage, Exeunt Magazine, The Asian Writer, and British Council Voices.

 

Sahar continues to learn every day—and you can read some of her writing here at saharullah.com

In 2020, Sahar received a theater commission from the Park Avenue Armory for the 100 Years 100 Women Project—before theatres were shut down as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. During that time, she wrote and directed a series of online readings of her play Bury Me Home. In 2021, she offered public readings of new work supported by the New York Foundation for the Arts. Most recently, she wrote and directed her first bilingual play Look/أنظروا as a The New Medina artist-in-residence in Tunisia.