"Powerful. Important. Moving." – Ben Jamal (Director of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign)
A collection of short political plays in response to warnings that artists shouldn’t be political.
We are living through a moment of horror. Brutality abroad in Palestine and the Global South is justified or ignored by our own government, while new police powers suppress protest at home. Globally far-right movements are growing and so too are Defence budgets. There is much to talk about.
Even the Arts Council started warning that ‘political statements’ made by individuals linked to an organisation can cause ‘reputational risk’, breaching funding agreements. Some are silenced; some are unwilling to speak.
This updated production – with two brand new commissions – returns to the Arcola after a sell out rapid response earlier this year. Playwrights include Hassan Abdulrazzak, Mojisola Adebayo, Phil Arditti, Sonali Bhattacharyya, Nina Bowers, Roxy Cook, Ed Edwards, Afsaneh Gray, Dawn King, Ahmed Masoud, Sami Abu Wardeh, Waleed Elgadi, Joel Samuels and lastly a devised piece inspired by an idea from Nina Segal.
Post-Show Talk Panellists and Workshops.
Tuesday 26th November
Thomas Suarez (Historical Researcher & violinist, ex-West Bank resident & Author of “Palestine Hijacked: How Zionism forged and Apartheid State from river to sea”)
Alia Malak (PACBI Palestinian Campaign for Academic and Cultural Boycott)
Wednesday 27th November
Barnaby Raine (PhD and teaching at Columbia University, and Organiser of Jewish solidarity with Palestine)
Zena Agha (Palestinian-Iraqi Writer, Artist + Poet, formally Al Shabaka policy fellow)
Thursday 28th November
Aimee Shalan (Director of MAKAN Rights and former CEO of MAP)
Dr Adam Elliot-Cooper (BLM, Queen Mary University, author of Black Resistance to British Policing and co author of Empires Endgame: Racism and the British state)
Friday 29th November
Rania Hafez, (Lebanese Associate Professor of Education at the University of Greenwich, published on education, religion, class, and identity)
Andrew Feinstein (Former ANC member of Parliament, South Africa)
Ahmed Masoud (Gazan playwright and novelist)
Saturday 30th November
Dr Rafeef Ziadah (Lebanese/Palestinian Human Rights Activist and Poet)
Haim Bresheeth (Ex-Israeli filmmaker)
Monday 2nd December
Hamza Yusuf (Palestinian Journalist for Declassifed UK, featured in Mondoweiss, Tribune Magazine and New Internationalist)
Dr Eva Kahir (British-Sudanese Doctor and Political advisor)
Tuesday 3rd December
Ben Jamal ( Director of Palestine Solidarity Campaign),
Abdelfattah Abusrour (Director of Alrowwad Cultural and Arts Centre in Aida refugee camp Bethlehem)
Wednesday 4th December
Asil Sidahmed (Strategic Advisor to Minister of Health in Sudan’s transitional Government),
Selma Dabbagh (British-Palestinian Lawyer and writer)
Thursday 5th December
Yasmin Ashraf (Palestinian Youth Movement, Britain)
Hassan Mahamdallie – (Director of the Muslim Institute and senior editor of its journal Critical Muslim. He is an author, playwright and theatre director. Formerly a senior policy officer at Arts Council England.)
Joel Samuels – (playwright, actor and activist. Co-Artistic Director of Bet’n Lev Theatre. Involved in pro-Palestine activism for over 20 years and spent time as an activist in Hebron (Al-Khalil) in the West Bank.)
Friday 6th December
Mohammed Elnaiem (Activist and Director of the Decolonial Centre)
Taghrid Choucair-Vizoso (climate cultural worker, artist, facilitator, activist from South Lebanon. Member of Equity’s International Solidarity Committee)
Asad Rehman – (Executive Director of War on Want. Lifelong activist, organising and campaigning for climate, racial and social justice).
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Running time
2hrs 15mins (including interval) - After Every Performance there will be an opportunity to join a 30 Minute Post-Show Talk. -
Age guidance
16+ -
Content warnings
“With its unflinching gaze and unrelenting energy, Cutting the Tightrope: The Divorce of Politics from Art is an unmissable triumph that demands to be seen. It is a bold reminder that art, when allowed to speak freely, has the power to provoke, to heal, to create a current in the waters of an otherwise stagnated and, oftentimes, corrupt world”
“An outstandingly well-written collection of short plays that interrogate political censorship within British theatre and beyond. … it interrogates censorship within the arts with unapologetic anger, laying bare the problems that exist for staging political plays in the current industry….Unmissable!”
“A bold & powerful protest play presentation on exploring the impact of censoring the Palestine genocide in the art space”
“Powerful and rousing”– Fairy Powered Productions
“One of the most powerful things I have ever watched”– Green Room Review
“I left the theatre, after a raw and vulnerable post-show discussion (as happens after every performance), thinking, ‘what is the point of theatre, if not this?’. Hats off to the vision, grit and determination of the whole team to use the arts and culture as a true platform for political change”
“What theatre should be in times of crisis like this. Fiery, fierce, and fearlessly political”
“At times grim, at times almost unbearable, but essential, unflinching and powerful – this is an urgent and energising evening… And the best pieces here manage the difficult balancing act of combining political commitment with lightness of touch, humour and irony”
“Cutting the Tightrope should be seen by everyone”
“If you do anything this week, I implore you to visit the Arcola Theatre and watch Cutting the Tightrope: The Divorce of Politics from Art.”
“An extraordinary theatrical and humanitarian endeavour”– There Ought To Be Clowns
“The courage of the pieces are infectious. We left the theatre fired up for the fight.”– Dame Harriet Walter (DBE, Actor)
“An opinionated, entertaining and urgent evening”– The Guardian
The Company
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Salman Akhtar
Actor
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Issam Al Ghussain
Actor
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Waleed Elgadi
Actor / Writer
Waleed Elgadi
Actor / Writer
Waleed is a British Sudanese actor/writer. He is a Sundance Theatre Lab artist in residence writing alumni. Recent Theatre includes: Chariots of Fire (Sheffield Crucible), The Jungle (Young Vic/National Theatre/ Good Chance at St Ann’s Warehouse – New York & Shakespeare Theatre – D.C.), Julius Ceaser, Antony & Cleopatra, Dido Queen of Carthage (Royal Shakespeare Company), Voices in the Dark (Sam Wanamaker Playhouse), Crossing Jerusalem (Park Theatre) and Yasser (Arcola, National Theatre – Netherlands/ Chopin Theatre – Chicago). TV includes: Alexander The Great: The Making Of A God (Netflix), Hijack (AppleTV), Tutankhamun (ITV), & Tyrant (FOX). Film includes: One Shot/One More Shot (Sky/Sony), The 355 (Paramount), Mosul (AGBO/Netflix), Hologram For The King (Playtone), and Four Lions (Film4). Up next: Out There (ITV), Maigret (PBS/BBC) and Promenade (Frank & Lively Films).
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Ruth Lass
Actor
Ruth Lass
Actor
Theatre includes: Cutting The Tightrope (Arcola Theatre); The Tremors (HER Productions); 12:37 (Finborough Theatre); Bach & Sons (Bridge Theatre); Crooked Dances (Royal Shakespeare Company); Equus (Theatre Royal Stratford East and UK Tour); Great Apes (Arcola); A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian (Hull Truck); Hospital At The Time of The Revolution (Finborough); The Rest Is Silence(Riverside Studios, World Shakespeare Festival); Wagner Dream (Barbican); Tempest (Barbican Bite); Hamlet (Riverside Studios); The Girl on The Sofa (Royal Lyceum, Edinburgh International Festival); Martin Yesterday (Manchester Royal Exchange); The House of Bernarda Alba (Young Vic/Shared Experience); Uganda and Live Like Pigs (both Royal Court); The Skryker (National Theatre); Hurricane Roses and Uganda (National Theatre Studio); Les Juste and Hecuba (both The Gate); Mrs Klein (Watford); And All Because The Lady Loves (Soho Theatre); The Dybbuk (New End, International tour).
TV includes: Strike – Lethal White; Silent Witness; Houdini and Doyle; Eastenders; White Teeth; Holby City; Coupling; High Stakes; Trial & Retribution; Antigone; Casualty; The Bill.
Film Includes: Divine Origins, The Ashes You Leave Behind, Keys, Between The Tides, Disobedience; The Book of Gabrielle; Mad Cows; Fill Up, Indian Summer. -
Sara Masry
Actor
Sara Masry
Actor
Sara Masry is a UK-based actor and writer. Her recent theatre experience includes the lead of Latifa in Sanctuary: The Secrets of the Gunter Mansion at the Borough Theatre, Abergavenny, while this year she made her directorial debut with the short film Groomscrolling. She previously joined three tours of Umm Kulthum: the Golden Era in the titular role of Young Umm Kulthum. Sara is a director of Contemporancient Theatre (CT), a theatre company exploring underrepresented stories in Welsh history. She is currently in R&D for CT’s upcoming play For the Love of Merthyr, an inspiring story of the birth of NHS Wales set in 1948 Merthyr, in which she will play the role of Mira, a pioneering immigrant nurse from Aden. Sara is of Saudi, Palestinian and Yemeni heritage. In her spare time, she helps her sister run Basima’s Kitchen, a food catering business inspired by their late Palestinian grandmother Basima.
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Jess Murrain
Actor
Jess Murrain
Actor
Jess Murrain is an actor, poet, filmmaker, and live artist based in the South-East. She is also co-founder of ‘Theatre with Legs’, a queer and experimental performance company based in Bradford. Acting credits include, Wonder Boy (Bristol Old Vic and UK tour), As You Like It (Globe Theatre), The Wife of Willesden (Kiln & US Tour), King Lear (West End), ‘Mr. Loverman’ (BBC), ‘The Sandman’ (Netflix), ‘Blonde.Purple’ (Amazon Prime). Her debut poetry pamphlet ‘One Woman-Horse Show’ is published by Bad Betty Press.
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Mark Oosterveen
Actor
Mark Oosterveen
Actor
Mark’s previous theatre work includes The Last King of Scotland (Sheffield Crucible), I Need an Adult (Lyric Hammersmith), The Grift (Tarento Productions), Breaking the Code (Royal Exchange, Manchester), New Friend (Arcola), Bedroom Farce, Private Lives and The Late Edwina Black (Sheringham Little Theatre), Foreplay (King’s Head), How to Begin (Soho Theatre), Above & Beyond (Look Left Look Right), Why Can’t We Live Together? (Theatre 503), Love’s Comedy (Orange Tree), When Chaplin Met Gandhi (Kingsley Hall), Not About Heroes (Lion & Unicorn), Personal Enemy (59E59, New York City), Pythonesque (Underbelly, Edinburgh), Muhmah (HighTide Festival) and Mary Goes First (Orange Tree).
Recent screen work includes the Guy Ritchie film The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare (Amazon Prime Video), the latest series of Silent Witness (BBC), the BAFTA-winning improvised episode of Casualty (BBC), the TV series Django (Sky), and the fifth season of Unforgotten (ITV), as well as Doctors (BBC), the Terence Davies film Benediction (Netflix), The Girlfriend Experience (Amazon Prime Video) and EastEnders (BBC). He will soon be appearing in the new ITV miniseries Suspect: The Shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes and the new Nia DaCosta film Hedda.
Mark also works extensively in voice over and is the associate writer/director of the new documentary Grand Theft Hamlet, which has won various 2024 awards and is released in UK cinemas on December 6th.
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Joel Samuels
Actor / Writer
Joel Samuels
Actor / Writer
Joel is an actor and writer who trained at LAMDA with a scholarship from the Leverhulme Trust. Acting for theatre includes: Remythed (Assembly & Tour), Ink (Duke of York’s) and Happy New (Trafalgar Studios). TV includes Forced Out (Sky), Doctors, Holby City. Joel’s writing is focused on storytelling with a political lense. His award- winning work for theatre includes Sugar Coat (Southwark Playhouse), A Wake In Progress (Vault, Underbelly & Tour) and Divas (Pleasance & Tour). Joel is co-Artistic Director of Bet’n Lev Theatre alongside Roann Hassani McCloskey.
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Dawn King
Writer
Dawn King
Writer
Dawn is an award-winning writer working in theatre, film, TV, radio and other forms. Her play THE TRIALS had a sold-out English language premiere at the Donmar Warehouse in 2022 after a German production at the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus and was a finalist for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize 2021. The Trials has been translated into multiple languages and produced all over the world. Her play ADDICTIVE BEAT had an immersive production in a converted church in Southwark Park in September 2022 (with Boundless Theatre.) Her radical reinterpretation of DER KIRSCHGARTEN for director Katie Mitchell opened at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg in November 2022. She is currently writing a new play for the Schauspielhaus Essen which will open in 2025, adapting THE TRIALS for the screen with Firebird Pictures and is also working on feature film PIG CHILD for Delaval Film and adapting her play FOXFINDER for the screen with Elation Pictures and Film Four.
Dawn’s previous work for the stage includes; FOXFINDER, originally produced by Papatango Theatre Company at The Finborough in 2011 and revived in a West End production at The Ambassadors in 2018; BRAVE NEW WORLD (Royal and Derngate) CIPHERS (The Bush) and SALT (National Theatre Connections.) She co-created immersive rave DYSTOPIA987 with Skepta for Manchester International Festival 2019.
For FOXFINDER, Dawn won the Royal National Theatre Foundation Playwright Award 2013, Papatango New Writing Competition 2011 and Most Promising Playwright, Off West End awards 2012. She was a finalist for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize 2012 and the James Tait Black drama prize 2012. Dawn’s short film THE KARMAN LINE won 17 awards including the BIFA for Best Short and was BAFTA nominated in 2014.
Dawn is an experienced teacher, teaching playwriting and screenwriting to adults and teenagers at City Lit, National Theatre, Central School of Speech and Drama and elsewhere and also works as a dramaturg and script editor.www.dawn-king.com
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Sonali Bhattacharyya
Writer
Sonali Bhattacharyya
Writer
Sonali Bhattacharyya is an award-winning playwright and screenwriter (Sonia Friedman Production Award and Theatre Uncut Political Playwriting Award for Chasing Hares). Her play King Troll (The Fawn) was a finalist for the Women’s Prize for Playwriting and will be produced at New Diorama Theatre this October/November.
Her plays include Liberation Squares (Fifth Word/Nottingham Playhouse), The Jungle Book (Chichester Festival Theatre), Arabian Nights (Bristol Old Vic), Chasing Hares (Young Vic and Theatre Uncut), Two Billion Beats (Orange Tree Theatre), Two Billion Beats (Korean translation, Kirkos Theatre, Seoul), Silence (Tara Theatre and Donmar Warehouse), Megaball (National Theatre Learning), Slummers (Cardboard Citizens/Bunker Theatre), The Invisible Boy (Kiln Theatre) and Assembly: The Teachers’ Play (Almeida Theatre).
Sonali is a graduate of the Royal Court Writers’ Group, the Old Vic 12, and Donmar Warehouse’s Future Forms Programme.
She is part of the writing team for new television drama Split Up from Sister Pictures/BBC, and is under commission to the Bristol Old Vic and Kali Theatre/New Diorama Theatre.
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Roxy Cook
Writer
Roxy Cook
Writer
Roxy Cook is a writer and director working across theatre and TV. After 5 years directing new writing (associate dir. Olivier award winning Rotterdam; assistant dir. Describe the Night; dir. Happy to Help; working with Rob Drummond on The Majority), she wrote her first play A Woman Walks Into a Bank. Roxy was a finalist for the 46th Susan Smith Blackburn Award 2024, shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Playwriting 2021 and longlisted for the Verity Bargate Award and Bruntwood Prize (both 2022). The play won the Theatre503 International Playwriting Award in March 2023 and Roxy directed a total sell out run at 503 later that year, which extended in a first for the venue. Alongside writing, Roxy works in script development for TV.
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Sami Abu Wardeh
Writer
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Hassan Abdulrazzak
Writer
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Mojisola Adebayo
Writer
Mojisola Adebayo
Writer
Prof. Mojisola Adebayo (BA, MA, PhD, FRSL, FHEA) is a playwright, performer, director, producer, mentor, workshop facilitator and teacher who has been making theatre for social justice for over 30 years, worldwide, from Antarctica to Zimbabwe.
Mojisola’s own plays include Moj of the Antarctic: An African Odyssey (Lyric Hammersmith); Muhammad Ali and Me (Ovalhouse); 48 Minutes for Palestine or Oranges and Stones (Ashtar Theatre, Ramallah); Desert Boy (Nitro / Albany Theatre); The Listeners (Pegasus Theatre); I Stand Corrected (Artscape, Cape Town); The Interrogation of Sandra Bland (Bush Theatre); Wind / Rush Generation(s) (National Theatre: Connections); Nothello (Coventry Belgrade Theatre); Family Tree (Actors Touring Company / Belgrade Theatre / Brixton House), which won the Alfred Fagon Award for Best Play of 2021 and 46 Women Attempt a Question (Arcola Theatre as part of ‘Cutting the tightrope: The Divorce of politics from Art’).
STARS (Tamasha Theatre Company / Institute of Contemporary Arts) was developed on a residency with idle women, shortlisted for the George Devine Award 2022, is nominated for three Off West End Theatre Awards including Best Play, premiered at ICA London in April 2023, and tours nationally May-June 2023. Oranges and Stones, co-devised and directed by Mojisola, has been touring the world with Ashtar Theatre for the past 14 years (including across Brazil, Britain, Germany, Palestine, Norway, Poland, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Turkey…) and is still going strong. Mojisola’s widely studied publications include Mojisola Adebayo: Plays One and Plays Two, Wind / Rush Generation(s) in NT Connections: 2020; Family Tree, STARS and Black British Queer Plays and Practitioners: An Anthology of Afriquia Theatre which was co-edited with Lynette Goddard (all published by Bloomsbury Methuen Drama); The Theatre for Development Handbook, co-written with John Martin and Manisha Mehta (Pan Arts) and various academic chapters.
Mojisola… is the first Black woman to perform on Antarctica; the first Black theatre artist to be invited to speak in the German Bundestag (Parliament); staged the first Black lesbian kiss in a play in Britain; South Africa and Singapore; and is the first Black playwright to have two new plays running and touring the UK simultaneously. Mojisola teaches at Queen Mary, University of London, is an Associate Artist of Black Lives Black Words, AICRE, Pan Arts, the Building the Anti-Racist Classroom collective and an Honorary Fellow of Rose Bruford College. Mojisola is currently on a research fellowship at University of Potsdam, Germany and is a Writer-on-Attachment to the National Theatre (UK).
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Phil Arditti
Writer
Phil Arditti
Writer
Philip is an actor, writer and maker. Other writing credits include: Extinct (published by Methuen as part of Global Jewish Plays). Burnt at The Stake (Shakespeare’s Globe) He co-wrote and directed Turkey-Syria Fundraiser (Royal Albert Hall, starring Olivia Colman, Omid Djalili and Gugu Mbatha-Raw).
Nina Bowers and Philip Arditti are a writing and performance duo. Their first full length piece English Kings Killing Foreigners commissioned by Camden People’s Theatre and premiered there in April ’24. It was published by Bloomsbury included in the Lit in Colour Play List. They were nominated for an OFFIES Best Duo Performance.
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Nina Bowers
Writer
Nina Bowers
Writer
Nina is a multidisciplinary performer working in theatre and cabaret. Other work includes two solo shows: Nina Talks about Her Values and The Mantis from Atlantis (CPT Sprint Festival). Her debut play is being produced at Theatr Genedlaethol Cymru Theatr in collaboration with the Welsh Ballroom community.
Nina Bowers and Philip Arditti are a writing and performance duo. Their first full length piece English Kings Killing Foreigners commissioned by Camden People’s Theatre and premiered there in April ’24. It was published by Bloomsbury included in the Lit in Colour Play List. They were nominated for an OFFIES Best Duo Performance.
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Ed Edwards
Writer
Ed Edwards
Writer
Ed wrote his first novel while awaiting trial on drugs charges. The novel was published the day he was sentenced to three-and-a half-years, in jail so his second novel (published by Fourth Estate) was written inside. Clean and sober ever since, Ed went on to write for Brookside, The Bill and Holby City and write original plays for BBC Radio 4. Ed currently teaches part-time and writes for theatre. In 2018 his stage play The Political History of Smack and Crack was a hit at the Edinburgh Fringe and went on to tour nationally. His last play England and Son – written specifically for the comedian and activist Mark Thomas – won multiple awards, including a Fringe First and an Offie then transferred to Adelaide Theatre festival where it also won Best Theatre award. Ed is currently Writer on Attachment at the National Theatre.
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Ahmed Masoud
Writer
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Zia Ahmed
Writer
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Cressida Brown
Director
Cressida Brown
Director
Cressida had the director bursary at the National Theatre Studio from 2007 – 2008 and although she has directed classical work nationally and internationally – including for the Globe, RSC and British Council – new writing is her passion. Since 2006 she has commissioned, developed and directed premieres with over 50 emerging and established playwrights. Cressida is probably best known for: Amphibians by Steve Waters inspired from interviews with former Olympic swimmers and staged in the hidden pool under the Bridewell Theatre stage; Walking the Tightrope by writers including Caryl Churchill, April DeAngelis, Timberlake Wertenbaker and Mark Ravenhill about freedom of expression; Ed Edward’s award-winning The Political History of Smack and Crack at Paines Plough’s Roundabout, Soho Theatre and UK tour; and the UK premiere of Obie Award winner Chris Chen’s Caught. Most recently she directed the comedian Mark Thomas is England & Son by Ed Edwards which won 6 Awards including a Scotman’s Fringe First and Adelaide Fringe Festival Award. After nearly 20 years of directing Cressida is most proud of her Septimus Bean and His Amazing Machine by Adam Peck where she transformed the Unicorn Théâtre foyer into a playground for her 6 year old audience during the final scene.
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Kirsty Housley
Director
Kirsty Housley
Director
Kirsty is a director, writer and dramaturg. She was the recipient of the Oxford Samuel Beckett Theatre Trust Award for Cue Deadly, a Live Film Project, and the Title Pending award for innovation at Northern Stage. She jointly received The Stage award for Innovation in 2017 for The Encounter and was nominated again in 2018 for The Believers are but Brothers. She was an RSC digital fellow in 2022. Her recent work includes: ECHO (Royal Court, as Dramaturg); Drive Your Plow Over The Bones Of The Dead (Co Director, Complicité, 2022/23); Jekyll & Hyde (National Theatre schools tour, 2024 and 2022); Horse (Director of Live show for Matthew Herbert, Edinburgh International Festival and Barbican); Hope (Director of Short Film for Clean Break), Extinct (Theatre Royal Stratford East, 2021); The Long Goodbye Livestream (Riz Ahmed/MIF/BAM, 2020), Rich Kids: A History of Shopping Malls in Tehran (Traverse Theatre, Sundance Film Festival and Under The Radar fest NYC); Mephisto (ARhapsodie) (Gate Theatre, 2019); Tao of Glass (Manchester International Festival and Royal Exchange Theatre, 2019); Avalanche (Barbican Theatre, as dramaturg); I’m A Phoenix, Bitch (Battersea Arts Centre, 2018); Myth (writer and director, RSC) and The Encounter (Complicité, Edinburgh International Festival, Warwick Arts Centre, Theatre Vidy, Bristol Old Vic, UK Tour, Broadway, 2015/16/17/18).
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Matthew Schmolle
General Manager for Matthew Schmolle Productions
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Zainab Hasan
Associate Artist/Director
Zainab Hasan
Associate Artist/Director
Zainab is an Actor. This is her Associate debut.
Theatre includes:Brassic FM (Gate Theatre, OFFIE Award finalist for Best Supporting Actress), Antigone (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre); Lotus Beauty (Hampstead Theatre); Chasing Hares (The Young Vic); Rice (Orange Tree Theatre/ ATC); The Welkin (National Theatre); Blank (Donmar Warehouse); Timon of Athens (RSC); Tartuffe (RSC); Tamburlaine (RSC); Hijabi Monologues (Bush Theatre); The Tempest (Donmar Warehouse/ St Ann’s Warehouse, NYC); Shakespeare Trilogy (Donmar Warehouse); Boy (Almeida Theatre); Henry IV (St Anne’s Warehouse, NYC); Henry IV (Donmar Warehouse); Tory Boyz (Ambassadors Theatre); Romeo & Juliet (Ambassadors Theatre); Prince of Denmark (Ambassadors theatre)
Television includes: Casualty (BBC One), Maryland (BBC2, Century Films)Writing includes: Writing Wrongs – Equal Measure (Donmar Warehouse), Mariams Rap – Tartuffe (RSC)