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Golden Thread Announces New Executive Artistic Director Sahar Assaf (she/her) is a Lebanese theatre maker and teacher who has been active in the Lebanese theatre scene since 2003.by BWW News Desk Golden Thread has announced that Sahar Assaf is the new Artistic Director. Following a global search, Sahar has relocated from Lebanon to San Francisco to helm the now 25 year old production company beginning May 3rd, following the stepping down of founding Artistic Director Torange Yeghiazarian. Sahar Assaf (she/her) is a Lebanese theatre maker and teacher who has been active in the Lebanese theatre scene since 2003 as an actor, director, translator, and producer. She s presented works in Syria, Egypt, Morocco, Belgium, London, Sweden, Poland, Greece, Chicago, and NYC. With her long term collaborator, playwright Robert Myers, Sahar co-founded the Theater Initiative at the American University of Beirut, an interdisciplinary group of faculty and artists working to facilitat ....
PlayCo will present a free, virtual roundtable discussion entitled Story as Resistance: The Joys, The Heartbreak, and the Food, this Sunday, DECEMBER 20, at 2pm EST (1pm CST, 11am PST), as part of the company s Idea Lab Series. The event seeks to illuminate themes in Amir Nizar Zuabi s This Is Who I Am, whose world premiere runs through JANUARY 3, directed by Evren Odcikin and co-produced by PlayCo and Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company in association with American Repertory Theater at Harvard University, the Guthrie Theater, and Oregon Shakespeare Festival. For Story as Resistance: The Joys, The Heartbreak, and the Food, PlayCo has convened an extraordinary group of artists and organizations from across the U.S. and around the world, who are leading conversations about, and changing representations on stage of, the Middle Eastern diaspora. They include Nora el Samahy, Resident Artist and Board President at Golden Thread Productions; Lameece Issaq, actor, writer, and Founding Arti ....
AEA/SAG-AFTRA agreement paves way for digital theater options post-pandemic The new agreement gives a little bit of certainty in this time of uncertainty, says Susi Damilano of SF Playhouse. Lily Janiak December 15, 2020Updated: December 15, 2020, 6:57 pm Actor Nora el Samahy waits for staff to clear up technical difficulties during a rehearsal for the upcoming play “Disbelief,” which is part of PlayGround’s Zoom Fest, at PlayGround’s PlaySpace in Berkeley. Photo: Michael Short / Special to The Chronicle If much of theater has gone digital since the pandemic, a new agreement between two performers unions hints that the art form might have online options indefinitely. ....