Saheem is a proud immigrant from Kenya and a two time Tony Award nominee for Buena Vista Social Club and Fat Ham on Broadway. He most recently directed Twelfth Night and Goddess at the New York’s Public Theater, where he serves as the Associate Artistic Director/ Resident Director. His production of Merry Wives (Shakespeare in the Park) was recorded for PBS Great Performances and was the subject of the documentary Reopening Night on HBO.  Other productions include Good Bones and Fat Ham (The Public) Goddess (Berkeley Rep), Nollywood Dreams (MCC), Romeo y Julieta, Shipwreck and Richard II (radio plays), Fires in The Mirror (Signature Theater), The Rolling Stone (Lincoln Center Theater), Passage (Soho Rep), Sugar in Our Wounds (MTC), Tartuffe (Playmakers Rep), Where Storms Are Born (Williamstown Theater Festival) and Kill Move Paradise (National Black Theater). He is a Usual Suspect at New York Theater Workshop, a Sir John Gielgud SDCF Fellow, a Shubert Fellow and recipient of an Obie Award for Sustained Excellence.