Selected Works

Full-On Cleopatra

A traveling soothsayer, Asim, wanders into the courtyard of Cleopatra’s palace and starts chatting with the queen’s handmaiden, Charmian. He promises to read her fortune.

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The Sex Talk I Never Had

A dark comedy that explores the political and intergenerational implications of sex for women. In collaboration with Backstitch Story Arts. Staging Company/Theatre/Festival: Avalanche Theatre Next

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Antigone

Sophocles’ Antigone, translated by poet and MacArthur Fellow Anne Carson, remains unequaled in its ability to combine all the fundamental contradictions of the human condition

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Shahadat (The Testimonies)

Based on Dr. Manal Hamzeh’s scholarship, Shahadat (the Testimonies) is an interdisciplinary theatre project based on the testimonies of three Egyptian women who experienced state-sponsored

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Off-White; Or the Arab House Party Play

Taking place in the early 2000s, Off-White; Or the Arab House Party Play follows Leila, a half white, half Arab-American teen who never felt like

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The Great Sea Serpent

The Great Sea Serpent portrays the laying of the first trans-Atlantic telegraph cable–a technological feat that revolutionized communications and ushered in global capitalism–and links it

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