Ghina Fawaz

Ghina Fawaz (She/Her) is a Lebanese-American director/writer/artist whose work explores the intersections of art and activism through folklore, fairytales, and ethnographic research to amplify underrepresented voices. Her work aims to nurture creative resistance: Antlers, developed after interviewing Lebanese people about war and occupation, spun resilient oral histories into a fantastical theatrical journey through puppetry; her Three Sisters adaptation reimagined Chekhov’s characters as refugees trapped in an airport, eternally awaiting their flight to Moscow that never comes; and Moonwake, developed with collaborators Dr. Hilary Cooperman and Tiara Ashurt through interviews with BIPOC+ college students, crafted an interactive site-specific performance exploring racial trauma and microaggressions at predominantly white institutions. Fawaz has directed works by Meg Ledford (Conservation of Matter), Andrew Reid (Here, Time Feels So...), and Dacyl Acevedo (From One Token to Another). She is looking forward to developing her next project, Watermelon Boy, at the Movement Lab as a Student Artist in Residence.