Past and current Programming
Commissions and Partnerships
Noor Theatre’s Commissioning Initiative was created in order to help build the canon of work by artists of Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) descent within theatre and across mediums. Noor is proud to partner with prestigious foundations, theaters, universities and institutions to co-present exciting, unknown work to a wider audience, including commissions like Dead Are My People, work by our Artists Advancing Cultural Change Cohort, and more.
Learn more: Commissioning
Learn more: Co-presentations
Highlight Reading Series
Highlight is a fall reading series designed to showcase the work of playwrights of Middle Eastern descent. Now in it’s 9th season, Highlight has featured the work of such award-winning playwrights as Mona Mansour, Yussef El Guindi and Heather Raffo. Several plays included in this popular series have gone on to have productions around the country.
WORLD PREMIERE PRODUCTIONS
Since our founding in 2010, we have produced the world premieres of over ten original plays: Food and Fadwa by Lameece Issaq & Jacob Kader; Dead Are My People by Ismail Khalidi; Myth In Motion with the students of the NJIT/Rutgers Theater program; three original plays in The Myth Project and twenty-five original short plays as part of 48 Hour Forum. Our inaugural production, Food and Fadwa, was co-produced with New York Theatre Workshop in May 2012.
48 Hour
Forum
Noor's annual forty-eight hour play festival where a diverse roster of artists are invited to spin our most talked about Middle Eastern-themed news events into humorous, incisive "theatrical op-eds." Taking place each May, five playwrights, five directors, and a company of actors gather over 48 hours in a race to create theater as fast as a news cycle. An audience favorite.