Sumaya Bouhbal

Sumaya “Nazar” Bouhbal is an 18-year-old actor, activist, singer/songwriter, rapper, and model from New York City. She embarked on her performing arts career in 2009. Since then, Sumaya has guest starred in “Law & Order,” “New Amsterdam,” and “Blue Bloods.” She played Pepita in “The Bridge of San Luis Rey” adapted by David Greenspan and directed by Ken Russ Schmoll at Two River Theater. She has performed in “Primer for a Failed Superpower,” a special concert performance artistically directed by Tony Nominee, Rachel Chavkin. Sumaya also played a runaway in “Runaways,” an Encores! Off-Center production at New York City Center, directed by Tony Award Nominee, Sam Pinkleton. Sumaya also landed the lead role of Jessa, in the off-Broadway production of Paula Vogel’s “A Civil War Christmas,” at the New York Theatre Workshop.

The ensemble play was directed by Tina Landau and consisted of a cast of only 13 actors. Sumaya was the only child actor in the production, acting alongside Tony Award winner, Alice Ripley, Tony Award Nominees, Bob Stillman and K. Todd Freeman, and Obie Award winner, Karen Kandel. Sumaya also performed at Broadway for Black Lives Matter and the NY Public Theater Gala with the cast of “Runaways” in both 2017 and 2018. In 2021, she founded the Young Lordes Collective, an activist-artist organization recently featured in “Vogue” and Nowness. Sumaya is currently an NYU MLK Honors Scholar and student of the Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music.