CV

PERFORMANCES

Solo Performances

No one likes an ugly revolutionary I (created 2016)

  • United Kingdom: Shubbak Festival 2019, The Gate Theatre (London, July 2019), and University College London, Slade School of Fine Art Research Centre (London, March 2018) for Widening the Gaze: A Conference Exploring the Role of Race in Creative Practice Today.

  • United States: Brooklyn Arts Exchange (New York, November 2016) in Submerge 2016: will you? Festival

Feeling the bones in my mouth: No one likes an ugly revolutionary, Draft II (created 2015-2016)

  • United States: La Mama (New York, January 2016), Columbia University (New York, October 2016)

  • Germany: Cuite.B.PoC Festival (Berlin, July 2016)

Feeling the bones in the my mouth: No one likes an ugly revolutionary, Draft I (created 2014-2015)

  • Canada: Qouleur Festival (Montreal, August 2015)

  • United States: Grace Exhibition Space (New York, November 2015), JACK (New York, May 2015)

Returning through soil. Beginning through stone. (created 2015)

  • United States: AS220, TODO BAJO-CONTROL Festival (March 2015)

Fet-Fete-Fetch- Draft II (created 2014)

  • United States: Dixon Place (New York, December 2014)

Fet-Fete-Fetch- Draft I (created 2013-2014)

  • United States: Brooklyn Arts Exchange (New York, October 2014)

As If They Were Mine (created 2014)

  • United States: NYU (New York, October 2015), Brooklyn Arts Exchange (New York, May 2014), Nuyorican Poets Cafe (New York, July 2014), Vassar College (Poughkeepsie, February 2015)

Stone Thrower (created 2013)

  • Participating artist of The Artist Peep Show

  • United States: Fourth Arts Block Festival (New York, October 2013)

The Only Fruit (created 2013)

  • United States: La Mama (New York, June 2013)

These Keys Are My Demons, My Lovers (created June 2013)

  • United States: Along Broadway Avenue between West 4th street and Waverly Place (New York, June 2013)

Grieving for the Undesirable (created April- July 2012)

  • Denmark: Copenhagen Queer Festival (Copenhagen, July 2012)

  • France: La Mutinerie (Paris, October 2012)

  • United States: Open Toe Peep Show (New York, December 2012), Exquisite Corpse Black Box Series (New York, February 2013), Don’t Wake the Beast (New York, April 2013)

Collaborative Performances

No one likes an ugly revolutionary in collaboration with Stephanie Acosta (Director), Bleue Liverpool (Video Artist), and Ashley Hefnawy (Sound Artist), Saint Abdullah (Sound Artist), Evan Spigelman (Lighting Designer)

  • United States, Abrons Arts Center (New York, March 2020)

Cake Eater in collaboration with Mieke D. and Susana Cook

  • United States: La Mama (New York, January 2017)

Manifest Collective Movement (created October 2013-June 2014) in collaboration with Jeca Rodriguez-Colon

  • Canada: Encuentro: MANIFEST! Choreographing Social Movements in the Americas, Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics Festival (June 2014, Montreal)

In Between (created April- June 2013) in collaboration with Beck Heiberg

  • France: La Mutinerie (Paris, July 2013), UEEH Festival (Marseille, July 2013)

  • Denmark: Folkets Hus, Warehouse 9 (Copenhagen, July 2013)

  • Germany: Somos Gallery (Berlin, July 2013)

If Patriarchy Ends Tomorrow (created June 2013) in collaboration with Sabina Ibarrola

  • United States: Fuck You Dad: A Cabaret to End Patriarchy (New York, June 2013), SUBMERGE Series (New York, November 2013)

Video

Desecrating the Pearl (created October 2012, video credit: Vanessa Haroutunian)

  • United States: Bard College (New York, November 2012)

EDUCATION

University of London, Goldsmiths College, London, UK

  • M.A in Applied Theatre: Drama in Educational, Community, and Social Contexts (2018)

  • Recipient of Brian Roberts Award for Excellence in Analysis of Practice

  • M.A Dissertation: From Object to Subject: Disrupting the Landscape of Israeli Settler-Colonialism Through Objects and Storytelling in the Palestinian Diaspora.

Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY

  • B.A in Theater/ Concentration in Human Rights, Gender/Sexuality Studies and Africana Studies (2010)

  • Senior Thesis: Génération Née du Béton: The Construction of Personal and National Identity in Three Plays of the Beur Generation, a critical essay.

Rabat American School, Rabat, Morocco

  • International Baccalaureate and High School Diploma (2006)

  • Senior Thesis: The Dynamics of the Lebanese Civil War 1975-1982.

RESIDENCIES, WORKSHOPS & GRANTS

Arab Fund for Arts and Culture Performing Arts Program (2019)

Abrons Arts Center, Jerome Foundation AIRspace Residency (2019-2020)

The Macdowell Colony Residency, Peterborough, NH (2017)

Ping Chong + Company, New York, NY, 2016 Summer Training Institute (2016)

Ping Chong + Company, New York, NY, DevisingHUB (2015)

Earthdance, E|MERGE 2015 Interdisciplinary Collaborative Residency (2015)                         (recipient, unable to attend)

Brooklyn Arts Exchange, Brooklyn, NY, Needing It ALL (2014)

Brooklyn Arts Exchange, Brooklyn, NY, EMERGELab @ BAX (2014)

Hemispheric Institute, New York, NY,  Hemispheric New York Emerging Performers Program (2013)

Recipient of the Field Artist Residency at The Field (New York, April-June 2013)

British American Drama Academy, Oxford, England, Midsummer in Oxford Program (2008)