Getting a New Identity for Christmas - Heather Raffo on writing and starring in the Iraqi immigrant tale 'Noura'
Heather Raffo on writing and starring in the Iraqi immigrant tale Noura at Playwrights Horizons---Heather Raffo says she grew up as a "sheltered Michigan girl -- a really nice, open, conservative" and blonde American who spoke English with a flat Midwestern accent. Then, at age 20, the Gulf War changed her identity. She became an Iraqi-American practically overnight.Now, almost three decades later, Raffo, in long (dy…