Samira Kawas

Samira Kawas is a producer and actress based in Beirut. She is the vice president of Symply Entertainment, a production company co-founded by her and American writer, director and producer Ron Senkowski. In 2018 they founded The Hollywood Pop Up Comedy Club.[1]

Education

Samira Kawas is an Antonine University alumna.[1]

Career

Throughout her career Samira Kawas has directed and produced for MBC, Dubai TV, MTV Lebanon, the Travel Channel, and Al Jazeera among other studios. In front of the camera, Kawas starred as Rowieda in the International Digital Emmy Award-winning web comedy series Shankaboot (2011).[1][2]

Kawas' and Senkowski's production company Symply Entertainment operates internationally from offices in Los Angeles, Dubai and Beirut. Their focus is on adapting internationally acclaimed novels that have multi-cultural components to the storylines. In 2018 they founded The Hollywood Pop Up Comedy Club.[3] Together they bring American A-list comedians to the Middle East, mostly to cities which do not have comedy clubs yet. Their first stand up comedy event was held in Beirut at the St. Georges Yacht Club in April 2018.[1] Ever since they have produced over 60 shows throughout the Middle East, including the Maz Jobrani "Peaceful Warrior" Tour 2019.[4]

Filmography
Year Title Credits Notes
2017 Life is a Cabaret Executive Producer TV Series
2014 Only Happens in Dubai Executive Producer TV Special
2014 The Prophet Cultural Consultant
2010 Shankaboot Actress Web Series
gollark: Yes it is. If we used different languages it would probably not work very well.
gollark: What isn't needed?
gollark: It has to be something and it's a lowest common denominator.
gollark: Approximate and heavily biased summary: palaiologos suddenly demanded that all (future?) events not require specifically Python after being annoyed by HelloBoi's event somehow, and ubq shut down the code guessing event and left.
gollark: "Common sense is that which is obvious to us and not others."

References
  1. "NAYA | Samira Kawas: Beirut, LA, and everywhere in between - TK Maloy". An-Nahar. 2018-08-27. Retrieved 2020-03-09.
  2. "Shankaboot actress co-producing film based on Amin Maalouf novel | Life , Lubnan | THE DAILY STAR". ftp.dailystar.com.lb. Retrieved 2020-03-09.
  3. "NAYA | Samira Kawas: Beirut, LA, and everywhere in between - TK Maloy". An-Nahar. 2018-08-27. Retrieved 2020-03-08.
  4. "'In the Middle East God is God and in America, the advertiser is God,' comedian Maz Jobrani on censorship". ArabianBusiness.com. Retrieved 2020-03-09.
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