2024:
January:
My play STAY SAFE recvied a workshop reading at Voices From a Changing Middle East Festival in Washington, D.C.
2022:
December:
My new show, "The Garden of Earthly Desires," premiered in Tel Aviv.
More deatils about the show here.
August:
I spent two weeks in the wonderful views and peace of the Greek island Paros at Cycladic Arts residency.
May:
I am happy to be joining the New Playwrights Group, supported by The Hanoch Levin Institute of Israeli Drama and the Municipality of Tel Aviv-Yafo.
April:
SALIM SALIM's first American production will open on April 20th at The University of New Hampshire.
March:
STAY SAFE is chosen as a semi-finalist for Premiere Stages 2022 play festival.
January:
My play AN EVENING ON RIVER STYX is awarded a development grant from Keren Yotzrim, for a new production to open in December 2022 in Tel Aviv.
2021:
October:
On October 25th I will have a public reading of my play STAY SAFE at The 14th Street Y in Manhattan, with the support of City Artists Corps and LABA.
August:
I am thrilled to be chosen to receive City Artists Corps Grant. This $5,000 award was created to activate and energize New York City’s artists and engage the public with art activities this summer and fall.
July:
My play "An Evening on River Styx" won a development award from Mifal Hapayis Arts Council for the Culture and Arts. It will be produced next year in Tel Aviv.
May:
I will be spending the month of May at MacDowell, working on my new play, "The Green Card Race".
February:
My play SALIM SALIM won the Woodward International Playwriting Prize Competition! I am thrilled and honored that the play has been chosen out of more than 400 plays. It will receive a production at NH University next year.
Read more about it here: Cultural Stages: The Woodward International Drama and Dance Initiative.
2020:
October:
Woodward International Playwriting Prize Competition
My play SALIM SALIM is a finalist for the Cultural Stages: Woodward Prize.
August:
At the beginning of August, my son Hillel was born and brought an abundance of happiness, joy, love, and fatigue into my life.
Co-Residency exhibition opens, where I share a scene from my newest play.
June - July:
Co-Residency
I am thrilled to be joining Co-Residency for a 12-week remote residency, with artists from around the world.
MacDowell Colony - (Postponed)
I was invited to spend the months of April and May at MacDowell working on a new play. Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the fellowship was postponed to a later date.
May:
Public Forum: Digital Duets
I had the pleasure of talking to Playwright Mona Mansour about writing and being a Middle Eastern artist in New York, as part of The Public Theater's Public Forum: Digital Duets. Watch our conversation here. And more fantastic talks here.
2019:
December:
New York Foundation for the Arts - IAP Mentorship
I had the pleasure of working in the mentoring program with playwright Yilong Liu.
October:
Stay Safe -
Reading at The Lark, part of the Middle Eastern American Writers Lab launch event.
Call Elsewhere -
Live performance at New York Live Arts.
August:
Don't Worry About Me -
A writing residency in Israel, with Polish film director Małgorzata Kozera-Topińska. Supported by an Asylum Arts Grant Award.
June:
An Evening on River Styx -
"Tikkun into the Night" at the 14th Street Y.
The Orchard Project, NYC Greenhouse -
I am a fellow of the two-year program of NYC Greenhouse. In June, we spent two wonderful weeks in Saratoga Springs, developing new work.
May:
Call Elsewhere -
Live performance at Chashama, part of Multiversant and developed with the support of New York Foundation for the Arts.