& Theatre
Selected Performances
Performer, A Tree Whose Name We Don’t Know
German and Arabic poetry in a community garden
48 Stunden Neukölln, Berlin, 2021
Dramaturg, Sanctuary
Performance installation by Brett Bailey
Fast Forward Festival (Athens), Theater der Welt (Hamburg), and Festival de Marseille, 2017
Director, Family Ti-Jean
Caribbean-Serbian musical theatre by Masrah Ensemble in public spaces with texts by Derek Walcott and Biljana Srbljanović, throughout Beirut including Shatila, 2015–16
Director, Mud: A Play in 17 Scenes
by María Irene Fornés
Masrah Ensemble, mansion, Beirut, 2013
Playwright and performer, Mama Butterfly
Danish Institute, Damascus, 2008
Performer, A Moment of Silence for the Shuhada’ of Iraq
Performance Art, Serjilla, Syria, winter solstice 2007
Selected Projects
Concept, Book, and Lyrics, Battery Dying Flying Submarine
A family friendly musical about the legend of an endangered wildflower, Beirut and Berlin, 2018–21
Commissioned by Festival de Marseille and One Space (EU)
Co-Editor and Co-Facilitator, Co-Writing Lab: Tales of Community Art and Art in Public Space in the Arab World, Cairo, 2017
Residency Director, Chez the Maidenly Madam, with Migrant Workers Community Center, Beirut, 2017
Collaborator, 1space, international theatre collectivity, Palestine, Portugal, and South Africa, 2016–17
Investigator, Performing Arts from Diaspora, research initiative culminating in theatrical gatherings, Tokyo, Osaka, Kobe, Kyoto, 2014
Festival Co-Director, Triangles: Theatre festival-in-progress across Amharic, Arabic, and English, Beirut and New York in addition to Baghdad and Paris, 2014
Program Director, Doomed by Hope Theatre Series, educational and artistic events featuring practitioners and scholars, Lebanon, USA, Australia, and The Netherlands, 2012–13